Lexical expectations in parsing complement-verb sentences
Using the single-word self-paced reading task, three experiments investigated parsing of
temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. The verbs differed in the …
temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. The verbs differed in the …
Use of verb information in syntactic parsing: evidence from eye movements and word-by-word self-paced reading.
F Ferreira, JM Henderson - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1990 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …
temporarily ambiguous sentences. In the first experiment, subjects' eye movements were …
The role of specific information about the verb in parsing sentences with local structural ambiguity
DC Mitchell, VM Holmes - Journal of Memory and Language, 1985 - Elsevier
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 …
course of parsing in an on-line subject-paced reading task. The materials were sentences …
Plausibility and argument structure in sentence comprehension
In two experiments, we investigated how reading time was affected by the plausibility of the
prepositional phrase in subject-verb-noun-phrase-prepositional-phrase sentences, and the …
prepositional phrase in subject-verb-noun-phrase-prepositional-phrase sentences, and the …
Parsing temporarily ambiguous complements
Holmes, Kennedy and Murray (1987) recently claimed that the empirical support for the
Minimal Attachment Strategy of sentence parsing had been weakened by results they …
Minimal Attachment Strategy of sentence parsing had been weakened by results they …
Lexical guidance in sentence processing: A note on Adams, Clifton, and Mitchell (1998)
RPG Van Gompel, MJ Pickering - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2001 - Springer
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 …
experienced difficulty reading a noun phrase when it immediately followed an intransitive …
Strategies for processing unbounded dependencies: Lexical information and verb–argument assignment.
MJ Pickering, MJ Traxler - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
This article describes 2 experiments about verb–argument relations in sentence processing
in which there is no ambiguity involving the subcategorization of the verb but in which the …
in which there is no ambiguity involving the subcategorization of the verb but in which the …
Parsing complements: Comments on the generality of the principle of minimal attachment
Two experiments are described in this paper, which examine the processing of English
sentences containing “complement” verbs, and which may be followed either by a …
sentences containing “complement” verbs, and which may be followed either by a …
Discourse influences during parsing are delayed
Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …
Plausibility and verb subcategorization in temporarily ambiguous sentences: Evidence from self-paced reading
MJ Traxler - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2005 - Springer
A self-paced reading experiment investigated processing of sentences containing a noun-
phrase that could temporarily be mistaken as the direct-object argument of a verb in a …
phrase that could temporarily be mistaken as the direct-object argument of a verb in a …