What’s next? Sufficiency of subject-object plausibility for anticipatory eye movements

Abstract

Visual-world studies have shown that listeners can combine verb restrictions and case information with world knowledge to anticipate upcoming arguments (e.g., Altmann & Kamide, 1999; Kamide, Scheepers, & Altmann, 2003). Kamide, Altmann, & Heywood (2003; Experiment 3) further demonstrated that anticipation does not depend on main verbs but can also be driven by the combination of nominative and dative-marked NPs. In their study, a dative NP2 implicated a subsequent transferable THEME object. Unlike dative NPs, nominative NPs only weakly constrain dependencies amongst remaining objects