Syntactic influences on eye movements during reading

Cognitive Science, 1984

Journal of Memory and Language, 2008

Language and …, 1989

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023

… : A window on mind and brain, 2007

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2007

Three eye movement experiments investigated focus identification during sentence comprehension. Participants read dative or double-object sentences (i.e., either the direct or indirect object occurred first), and a replacive continuation supplied a contrast that was congruous with either the direct or the indirect object. Experiments 1 and 2 manipulated focus by locating only adjacent to either the direct or indirect object of dative (Experiment 1) or double-object (Experiment 2) sentences. Reading-time effects indicated that the surface position of the focus particle influenced processing. In addition, Experiment 1 reading times were longer when the replacive was incongruous with the constituent that only adjoined, and particle position modulated a similar effect in Experiment 2. Experiment 3 showed that this effect was absent when only was omitted. We conclude that the surface position of a focus particle modulates focus identification during on-line sentence comprehension.

Estudios Iranios y Turanios, 2024

At Yašt 19.34, Yima, the primordial king of Zoroastrian myth is described as having become a-šāta- after uttering the first lie, as a result of which he also lost his royal charisma (xvarənah) and the world lost the ideal state in which there was neither hot, cold, dryness, disease, old age, envy, or death. Previous translations have rendered the term either "unhappy" or "unquiet," which are etymologically justified, but contextually inadequate. The importance of this passage and related texts suggests that terminology derived from the Iranian verbal root š(ii)ā- denoted an ideal of peace, contentment, fulfillment of all needs, and freedom from all anxieties, which had different qualities in different temporal eras. Old Persian texts tend to concentrate on primordial šiyāti-, Avestan on šāta- and a-šāta- in the present, and Pahlavi on eschatological šādīh.

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