Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

A crucial part of understanding a sentence is to construct its syntactic structure. Without this,
it would be very difficult for language users to determine that sentences with different word …

Overview: The principal subdivisions employed within the cognitive psychology of language
are outlined. The chapter then focuses on one subdivision, syntax, or the well-formedness of …

Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …

For more than a decade, views of sentence comprehension have been shifting toward wider
acceptance of a role for linguistic pre‐processing–that is, anticipation, expectancy,(neural) …

People comprehend utterances rapidly and without conscious effort. Traditional theories
assume that sentence processing is algorithmic and that meaning is derived …

Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limited type of
underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably been …

Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose
syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (eg,“The saleswoman …

Numerous problems have to be solved in the course of interpreting a sentence. First, the
individual words have to be identified. making stored information available for higher level …