Online processing of reference and ageing

What is it about?

In a visual-world paradigm we investigated the processing and interpretation of two overt subject anaphoric expressions in Greek, a null-subject language with a relatively free word-order, in relation to specifi linguistic properties and whether these differ across adulthood. Specifially, we explored whether changes in anaphoric type (o ídhios vs. aftós) and syntactic complexity (SVO vs. OVS word-orders) had similar effects in how reference was processed and finally resolved by young and elderly adults.

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Why is it important?

It is the first eye-tracking experiment that examines syntactic complexity and pronoun type affecting online processing and interpretation of ambiguous anaphoric expressions in Modern Greek.