An eyetracking experiment was conducted to explore a self-paced reading effect reported by
Mitchell (1987). Mitchell found that a noun phrase (NP) was read slowly when it immediately …

Abstract Mitchell (1987) conducted a self-paced reading experiment that showed that people
experienced difficulty reading a noun phrase when it immediately followed an intransitive …

We investigated whether readers use verb information to aid in their initial parsing of
temporarily ambiguous sentences. In the first experiment, subjects' eye movements were …

Two eyetracking experiments examined the reading of sentences like “While the police/truck
stopped the Datsun disappeared into the night.” A paper by L. Stowe (Thematic structures …

Using the single-word self-paced reading task, three experiments investigated parsing of
temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. The verbs differed in the …

This study investigated the locus of interpretive and inference processes during text
comprehension. Two positions were contrasted: the buffer-integrate-purge position, which …

The experiments reported here use individual word reading times in a self-paced word-by-
word reading task to examine the processing of prepositional phrase constituents in …

Three experiments were conducted to determine whether individual words can influence the
course of parsing in an on-line subject-paced reading task. The materials were sentences …

The present paper provides evidence that the processing of verb final clauses proceeds
incrementally based on local information that becomes available with each word. The results …

Carried out 2 S-paced reading experiments to examine the way in which discourse
information exerts its influence in sentence comprehension. The results show that whereas …