The use of cloze task in the experimental design of studies on anticipatory linguistic processing
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https://doi.org/10.47456/cl.v16i33.37602Keywords:
Cloze, Anticipation, verbs, Thematic informationAbstract
This study highlights the relevance of the cloze task (TAYLOR, 1953) for experiments that investigate anticipatory linguistic processing. Studies on anticipation in linguistic processing propose that during comprehension the speaker seeks to anticipate, with maximum certainty, the unfolding of sentences over time. In the psycholinguistic literature, the cloze task is one of the means to measure the predictability of a word in a given context. The task presented in this article assessed the behavior of subselection of internal arguments by 520 verbs. The knowledge of this behavior can be used in experiments that investigate anticipatory processing, as arguments frequently subselected by certain verbs – those with very high cloze probabilities – can direct the anticipation of semantic features of certain lexical items. The results showed that verbs can feature different behavior of subselection of arguments, which can show in the anticipation of semantic traits of highly expected internal arguments.
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