The time courses for processing constituent structure relations, subcategorization
restrictions, and thematic role relations during sentence comprehension were measured …

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the role of referential continuity in
understanding discourse. In experiment 1, a group of university students listened to stories …

Four self-paced reading experiments focusing on the main clause/reduced relative clause
ambiguity were conducted to assess the effects of semantic focus on the resolution of …

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During sentence comprehension, events denoted by verbs must be related to other events
already established in the discourse. This often requires the tense of a verb to be evaluated …

Three mini‐essays review the progress made on two traditional problems and one newer
problem in discourse understanding. The first traditional problem is the relationship between …

The experiment investigated locally ambiguous English sentences containing “complement”
verbs such as believe, which can be followed either by a direct object or by a complement …

We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations
influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses …

When a sentence such as The model embraced the designer and the photographer laughed
is read, the noun phrase the photographer is temporarily ambiguous: It can be either one of …

Clifton and Frazier (1986) present the results of two experiments in further support of their
earlier claim (Frazier, Clifton, & Randall, 1983) that some kinds of linguistic information are …