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 …

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 expectations in parsing complement-verb sentences

VM Holmes, L Stowe, L Cupples - Journal of Memory and Language, 1989 - Elsevier
Using the single-word self-paced reading task, three experiments investigated parsing of
temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. The verbs differed in the …

Effects of syntax in human sentence parsing: Evidence against a structure-based proposal mechanism.

G Altmann, A Garnham, JA Henstra - 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

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 …

Resolution of syntactic category ambiguities: Eye movements in parsing lexically ambiguous sentences

L Frazier, K Rayner - Journal of memory and language, 1987 - Elsevier
Three experiments explored the effects of the interaction of lexical and syntactic processes
during language comprehension. Subjects read sentences containing lexical items that …

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 …

Parsing arguments: Phrase structure and argument structure as determinants of initial parsing decisions

C Clifton Jr, S Speer, SP Abney - Journal of Memory and Language, 1991 - Elsevier
Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose
syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (eg,“The saleswoman …

Case markers as clause boundary inducers in Japanese

ET Miyamoto - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2002 - Springer
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 …

Syntactic parsing: In search of the garden path

VM Holmes - Attention and performance XII, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …