Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on an issue central to processing models: that of
how the language processor resolves several types of indeterminacy during …

Four experiments investigated the relationship between syntactic and semantic processing.
The first two experiments, which used a word-by-word reading paradigm with a makes …

A great deal of experimental evidence supports the intuition that language comprehension
takes place immediately and incrementally. For example, listeners can shadow speech …

An eye tracking study investigated the effects of local and global discourse context on the
processing of subject and object relative clauses, whereby the contexts favored either a …

Results from two self‐paced reading experiments in English are reported in which subject‐
and object‐extracted relative clauses (SRCs and ORCs, respectively) were presented in …

Three experiments investigated the influence of a context sentence on the processing of a
subsequent sentence. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that clauses with pronoun …

We discuss and debunk five common assumptions about the interrelation of semantics,
syntax, and frequency during sentence processing. In the course of this, we explore the …

Abstract discuss sentence comprehension, focusing on the relation between language
structure and language processing at this level of analysis/presents a history of sentence …

Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the
comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three …

A reduced relative—main clause ambiguity occurs in sentences that begin with reduced
relative clauses, as in The hangman executed by the government was convicted of treason …