Event-related potentials were used to study how parsing of German relative clauses is
influenced by semantic information. Subjects read well-formed sentences containing either a …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

Two experiments investigated syntactic processing during comprehension of sentences
presented either in isolation or in a discourse context. Comprehension of a range of different …

Two experiments examined processing of singular pronouns when the antecedent (eg,
Mary) was a noun phrase (NP) in a conjoined phrase (eg, Mary and John). Whole-sentence …

Fluent users of English who encounter the words dogs, chase, and squirrels in this order will
rapidly understand that dogs is the agent of the chasing action and the squirrels are chased …

What types of linguistic information do people use to construct the meaning of a sentence?
Most linguistic theories and psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension assume …

Sedivy (2002) proposed that using only and prior referential context to specify contrastive
focus can guide the parsing of relative clause ambiguities. We report two studies …

Publisher Summary A fundamental problem in language comprehension is to obtain an
accurate characterization of lexical processing and of the influence of contextual information …

Psychological theories of natural language processing have usually assumed that the
sentence processor resolves local syntactic ambiguities by selecting a single analysis on the …

Understanding language involves recognition and access to not only individual words, but
also to a vast array of fixed expressions-idioms, collocations, proverbs, common quotations …