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lexical expectation A particular word tends to be used in certain structures. Our experience-based knowledge of this can affect the preferred processing strategy for sentences involving that word. See also lexical preference.
Example:In filler-gap dependencies, there are different expectations for the two verbs in the following, so that readers are likely to expect book to be the object of read and so be thrown if the sentence finishes with from, while they are less likely to expect students to be the object of walk, so with is not so surprising:Which book did the teacher read to the children from?Which student did the teacher walk to the cafeteria with?
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Topic: Making connections