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The student, Caoimhe Harrington Stack, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-21 at 16:01. The student, Caoimhe Harrington Stack, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-07-21 at 16:09. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-07-22 at 14:03. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10061 on 2016-11-10 at 12:27:38 Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:35:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 HARRINGTONSTACK-THESIS-2016.pdf: 652457 bytes, checksum: 420238b681a78811be8b4ed2538f9dbe (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4221 bytes, checksum: e5a512b86269ad88f37031b8e913b956 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-22 Watson, Duane G. Harrington Stack, Caoimhe M 2016-11-10T18:35:36Z 2016-11-10T18:35:36Z 2018-11-11T10:15:40Z 2016-07-22 2016-08 Language comprehension requires successfully navigating through a great degree of variability that is encountered on all linguistic levels. One hypothesis of how this variability is successfully dealt with is that listeners can rapidly update their statistical knowledge of how likely a linguistic event is to occur in a specific context. This process, called adaptation, allows listeners to better predict upcoming linguistic input. In previous work, Fine et al. (2013) designed an experiment to test for adaptation to uncommon syntactic structures. Subjects repeatedly encountered temporarily ambiguous RC/MV sentences. They found that subjects who had more exposure to the unexpected RC interpretation of the sentences had an easier time reading RC sentences but a harder time reading MV sentences. They concluded that syntactic adaptation occurs rapidly in unexpected structures and also results in trouble processing previously-expected, alternative structures. However, a power analysis revealed that Fine et al. (2013) ran an underpowered study. This thesis was designed to serve as a replication of Fine et al. (2013) with appropriate power. There was a failure to replicate Fine et al. (2013). The findings suggest instead that syntactic adaptation does not happen as rapidly as previously thought. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95400 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:35:44Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95400 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:37:47Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95400 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:39:22Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95400 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:43:22Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 95400 on 2018-11-11T10:15:40Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/92980 en Copyright 2016 Caoimhe Harrington Stack syntax adaptation comprehension psycholinguistics Adaptation in syntactic comprehension: a replication text text Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A.