PMID- 22512733
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130114
LR  - 20120829
IS  - 1747-0226 (Electronic)
IS  - 1747-0218 (Linking)
VI  - 65
IP  - 9
DP  - 2012
TI  - Emotional nouns affect attachment decisions in sentence completion tasks.
PG  - 1740-59
LID - 10.1080/17470218.2012.662989 [doi]
AB  - We report three sentence completion experiments in which we manipulate the 
      emotional dimension of the nouns in a complex noun phrase (NP) that precedes a 
      relative clause (RC), as in the classic ambiguity in Someone shot the servant of 
      the actress who was on the balcony. The aim was to see whether nouns such as orgy 
      or genocide affect the well-established preference of Spanish to adjoin the 
      relative clause high in the tree (to servant instead of actress in the example 
      above). We manipulated the valence and arousal of the lexical entities residing 
      in the NP. Our results indicate that (a) the inclusion of either pleasant or 
      unpleasant words induces changes in the usual NP1 preference found in Spanish; 
      (b) the effects of high-arousal words are especially clear, in that they pull RC 
      adjunction towards the NP where they are located, be it the NP1 or the NP2; and 
      (c) in the context of sentence production, these kinds of words seem intense 
      enough to promote changes in (and even reverse) a solid syntactic bias. We 
      discuss these findings in the light of existing theories of syntactic ambiguity 
      resolution.
FAU - Fraga, Isabel
AU  - Fraga I
AD  - Cognitive Processes & Behaviour Research Group, Department of Basic Psychology, 
      Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 
      isabel.fraga@usc.es
FAU - Pineiro, Ana
AU  - Pineiro A
FAU - Acuna-Farina, Carlos
AU  - Acuna-Farina C
FAU - Redondo, Jaime
AU  - Redondo J
FAU - Garcia-Orza, Javier
AU  - Garcia-Orza J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120418
PL  - England
TA  - Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)
JT  - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
JID - 101259775
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Choice Behavior
MH  - *Emotions
MH  - Humans
MH  - Language
MH  - *Psycholinguistics
MH  - *Semantics
EDAT- 2012/04/20 06:00
MHDA- 2013/01/15 06:00
CRDT- 2012/04/20 06:00
PHST- 2012/04/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/04/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/01/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1080/17470218.2012.662989 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2012;65(9):1740-59. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.662989. 
      Epub 2012 Apr 18.