A Predictive Comparison of the Selective Attention Hypothesis and Contextual Priming Theory in Processing English It-Extraposition: An Eye-Tracking Study
When readers encounter an English it-extraposition structure (e.g., It is obvious that the minister resigned), two fundamentally different processing mechanisms could guide the resolution of the cataphoric dependency. The Selective Attention Hypothesis (SAH) holds that expletive it concentrates attentional resources on...