Ambiguity in sentence processing

GTM Altmann - Trends in cognitive sciences, 1998 - cell.com
… The pervasiveness of ambiguity during sentence processing does not always pass us by, …
Research into ambiguity resolution during sentence processing is just one of many fields of …

Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: The role of lexical and contextual information

D Papadopoulou, H Clahsen - Journal of Linguistics, 2006 - cambridge.org
… We report results from a sentence-completion task and from a self-paced reading … modular
theories of sentence processing and argue that on-line ambiguity resolution relies primarily on …

[PDF][PDF] Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Sentence Processing: New Evidence from a Morphologically Rich Language.

D Chernova, TV Chernigovskaya - EAPCogSci, 2015 - academia.edu
… requires more time to process than low or ambiguous attachment (as Late … sentence which
also show strong high attachment bias. Therefore we see two stages of sentence processing: …

Brain responses to lexical ambiguity resolution and parsing

P Hagoort, C Brown - Perspectives on sentence processing, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
… on separate aspects of sentence processing. The first set focuses on the disambiguation of
biased am biguous words by right-context information (biased ambiguous words are words …

Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: Evidence against frequency-based accounts

MJ Pickering, MJ Traxler, MW Crocker - Journal of memory and language, 2000 - Elsevier
… This article addresses the question of how the processor decides on its initial strategy for
syntactic ambiguity resolution. At a point of ambiguity, more than one analysis is possible. An …

Understanding words in sentence contexts: The time course of ambiguity resolution

T Swaab, C Brown, P Hagoort - Brain and Language, 2003 - Elsevier
… A backward priming account is at odds with the idea that lexical frequency can influence
real-time sentence processing, and one of the goals of the present ERP study is to address this …

Resolving semantic ambiguities in sentences: Cognitive processes and brain mechanisms

S Vitello, JM Rodd - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… speech comprehension of low-ambiguity speech and that they may therefore perform
functions that are more pertinent to ambiguity resolution than sentence processing in general. (…

Sentence processing in a second language: Ambiguity resolution in German learners of English

A Rah - 2009 - kups.ub.uni-koeln.de
sentence processing or parsing, ie the assignment of linguistic structure to a sentence. …
(L1) and second language (L2) sentence processing. To this purpose, various theoretical …

Architectures and mechanisms for sentence processing: Is syntactic parsing a form of lexical ambiguity resolution?

MJ Traxler, MJ Pickering, C Clifton Jr… - … on language processing, 2000 - Springer
Some accounts of syntactic parsing propose that readers and listeners determine a sentence's
syntactic structure in much the same way that they determine the meaning of a word (…

Sentence complexity and working memory effects in ambiguity resolution

JH Kim, K Christianson - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2013 - Springer
… RC ambiguity resolutionsentence processing: relative clause attachment in Basque and
Spanish. Poster presented at the 17th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing