Abstract prediction of morphosyntactic features: Evidence from processing cataphors in Dutch ... : التنبؤ المجرد بالميزات النحوية الشكلية: أدلة من معالجة الاستعارات باللغة الهولندية ...

When comprehenders predict a specific lexical noun in a highly constraining context, they also activate the grammatical features, such as gender, of that noun. Evidence for such lexically mediated prediction comes from ERP studies that show that comprehenders are surprised by adjectives and determiners that mismatch the features of a highly predictable noun. In this study, we investigated whether comprehenders can (i) predict an abstract noun phrase in an upcoming argument position (without pre-activating a specific lexical item) and (ii) assign morphosyntactic features to the head noun of tha... Mehr ...