The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper …

The present study is an attempt to discover some of the factors which influence readers'
comprehension when faced with several possible interpretations of a sentence, and whether …

The effect of research findings concerning language comprehension on the understanding
of the organization of cognition is examined. Principles underlying general cognitive …

Results from two experiments are presented that tested the hypothesis that processing is
facilitated when there is a correspondence between discourse focus and two types of …

Non-interactive theories of langauge comprehension strongly imply that context may be
used only extra-linguistically, ie, only after initial linguistic processing has been completed …

This paper shows that models of sentence comprehension based on “weak interaction”
between syntax and interpretive processes are theoretically well-founded. According to this …

The authors demonstrate that intersentential context may influence syntactic integration
processes during online sentence comprehension, although this influence appears to be …

Ni, Crain, and Shankweiler (1996) present evidence to suggest that the focus operator only
can guide how reduced relative clause sentences are initially parsed. In this paper, we …

Reading time for the second clause of a conjoined sentence was found to be faster when the
clause was structurally similar to the first clause than when the clausal structures differed …