(Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: An experimental approach

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017

Óscar Loureda Lamas , Mathis Teucher , Celia Hernández Pérez , Adriana Cruz Rubio , Carlos Gelormini-Lezama

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Abstract

Anaphoric encapsulation is a discursive mechanism by which a noun phrase recovers an explicature. This eye tracking study addresses the question of whether categorizing versus recategorizing encapsulation lead to different processing patterns. Results show that (1) encapsulating noun phrases are cognitively prominent areas, (2) recategorization is never less effortful than categorization, (3) the prominence and instructional asymmetry of the encapsulating noun phrase with respect to the antecedent is greater in cases of recategorizing encapsulation. Overall, encapsulating noun phrases initiate a complex cognitive operation due to the nature of their antecedent, which includes both encoded and inferred information. A distinctive processing pattern emerges for recategorizing encapsulating noun phrases: greater local efforts, due to the introduction of new information, do not result in higher total reading times.

Beyond the introductory section, the structure of this study is as follows: Section 2 discusses the properties of categorizing and recategorizing mechanisms. Section 3 reviews experimental research on nominal anaphoric encapsulation in Spanish. Section 4 outlines the key aspects of the experimental design and execution. Finally, sections 5 and 6 present the results of the experiment and offer a theoretical discussion of the findings.

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（二）词汇封装分类：一种实验方法

回指封装是名词短语恢复释义的一种语篇机制。这项眼动追踪研究解决了分类和重新分类封装是否导致不同的加工模式的问题。结果表明：(1)封装名词短语是认知上的突出区域；(2)重新分类并不比分类容易；(3)封装名词短语相对于先行词的突出性和教学不对称性在重新分类封装的情况下更大。总的来说，由于其先行词的性质，封装名词短语启动了一个复杂的认知操作，其中包括编码和推断信息。一个独特的处理模式出现了重新分类封装名词短语：更大的局部努力，由于引入新的信息，并不导致更高的总阅读时间。除了引言部分，本研究的结构如下：第2节讨论了分类和重新分类机制的性质。第三节回顾了西班牙语名义回指封装的实验研究。第4节概述了实验设计和执行的关键方面。最后，第5节和第6节给出了实验结果，并对实验结果进行了理论讨论。

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Journal of Pragmatics Multiple-

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3.90

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18.80%

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219

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