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 …
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 …
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 …
K Rayner, L Frazier - The Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
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 …
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 …
A Kennedy, WS Murray, F Jennings… - Language and Cognitive …, 1989 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …
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 …