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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Arai M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4894567 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
PloS one 20160606 6
Past research has produced evidence that parsing commitments strengthen over the processing of additional linguistic elements that are consistent with the commitments and undoing strong commitments takes more time than undoing weak commitments. It remains unclear, however, whether this so-called digging-in effect is exclusively due to the length of an ambiguous region or at least partly to the extra cost of processing these additional phrases. The current study addressed this issue by testing Ja ...[more]