This paper describes an ongoing research program designed to investigate how syntactic
and semantic aspects of lexical information become available to the sentence processing …

A central question for psycholinguistics concerns the role of grammatical constraints in
online sentence processing. Many current theories maintain that the language processing …

As listeners and readers, we rarely notice the ambiguities that pervade our everyday
language. When we hear the proverbTime flies like an arrow'we might ponder its meaning …

This book presents a new theoretical framework--what Gernsbacher calls the Structure
Building Framework--for understanding language comprehension in particular, and …

Abstract describes a series of experiments designed to investigate the contribution of lexical
knowledge and sentence context to speech processing/the specific empirical results …

Presented a target sentence to 12 undergraduates following the presentation of a sentence
context, a 1-or 2-word context, or no context, which represented decreasing degrees of …

Some sentences can have both a literal and a metaphorical meaning, but typically only one
is appropriate. What contextual constraints lead readers to the appropriate interpretation …

We conducted a large-scale corpus analysis indicating that pronominal object relative
clauses are significantly more frequent than pronominal subject relative clauses when the …

Work on agreement processing in comprehension in English has provided evidence that the
plural feature is “specified” or “marked” and that the syntactic structure of the subject plays a …

This paper examines verb processing during sentence comprehension. We describe two
experiments that assess the interaction between verb complexity and the structural …