Subjects are not all alike: Eye-tracking the agent preference in Spanish

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 8; p. e0272211
• Main Authors: Gómez-Vidal, Beatriz, Arantzeta, Miren, Laka, Jon Paul, Laka, Itziar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 03.08.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Aphasia; Biology and Life Sciences; Computational linguistics; Datasets; Experimental research; Eye; Eye movements; Fixation; Hypotheses; Information processing; Language processing; Medicine and Health Sciences; Movements; Natural language interfaces; Social Sciences; Tracking; Spain

Experimental research on argument structure has reported mixed results regarding the processing of unaccusative and unergative predicates. Using eye tracking in the visual world paradigm, this study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by presenting new evidence of the processing distinction betwee...