The use of thematic role information in parsing: Syntactic processing autonomy revisited

C Clifton Jr, MJ Traxler, MT Mohamed… - Journal of Memory and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Two eye-movement experiments examined the processing of sentences containing reduced
relative constructions. In the first experiment, animacy of the sentential subject, structural …

Processing subject and object relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements

MJ Traxler, RK Morris, RE Seely - Journal of memory and language, 2002 - Elsevier
Three eye-movement-monitoring experiments investigated processing of sentences
containing subject-relative and object-relative clauses. The first experiment showed that …

Semantic influences on parsing: Use of thematic role information in syntactic ambiguity resolution

JC Trueswell, MK Tanenhaus, SM Garnsey - Journal of memory and …, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract Ferreira and Clifton (1986, Experiment 1) found that readers experienced equal
difficulty with temporarily ambiguous reduced relatives clauses when the first noun was …

Discourse influences during parsing are delayed

K Rayner, S Garrod, CA Perfetti - Cognition, 1992 - Elsevier
Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …

Thematic Roles in Sentence Parsings

C Clifton - Reading and language processing, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Plausibility and argument structure in sentence comprehension

SR Speer, C Clifton - Memory & cognition, 1998 - Springer
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 …

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 …

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 …

Plausibility and syntactic ambiguity resolution

NJ Pealmutter, MC MacDonald - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 1992 - escholarship.org
Different theories of human syntactic parsing make conflicting claims concerning the role of
non-syntactic information (eg semantics, real world knowledge) on on-line parsing. W e …

Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced reading

B Swets, T Desmet, C Clifton, F Ferreira - Memory & Cognition, 2008 - Springer
Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings.
Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …