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 …

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 …

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

In 1992, DC Mitchell et al (see record 1992-18602-001) presented new evidence to suggest
that contextual information does not influence the parser's initial decisions. It was suggested …

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 …

Three experiments explored the effects of the interaction of lexical and syntactic processes
during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences containing lexical items that …

Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …

Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose
syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (eg,“The saleswoman …

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 …

The parsing principle of minimal attachment predicts that a noun phrase occurring after
verbs such as “report” or “indicate” will first be assumed by readers to be the direct object of …