Skilled reading requires the coordination of numerous component comprehen sion
processes. At the word level, processes are necessary to encode the printed word and …

Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing lexically
ambiguous words whose meanings share a single syntactic category (eg, calf), lexically …

The topic addressed in this volume lies within the study of sentence processing, which is
one of the major divisions of psycholinguistics. The goal has been to understand the …

Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing noun–noun
compounds that varied in frequency (eg, elevator mechanic, mountain lion). The left …

Measuring where the eyes fixate, and for how long, has arguably been the most valuable
way of exploring the time-course of comprehending written sentences. This chapter reviews …

In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word
recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual …

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

Since reading and understanding are moderately complex human activities, they are often
studied and. described from various perspectives. Our own approach has focused on the …

The ERP experiment reported here addresses some outstanding questions regarding word
processing in sentential contexts:(1) Does only the 'message-level'representation (the …

Two eye-tracking experiments investigated processing of VP-NP attachment ambiguities.
Experiment 1 tested sentences in which there was an initial bias toward VP attachment …