Cuetos and Mitchell (1988) observed that in constructions in which a relative clause can
attach to one of two possible sites, English speakers prefer the more recent attachment site …

Most current models of speech production predict interference from related context words in
picture-naming tasks. However, Glaser and Düngelhoff (1984) reported semantic facilitation …

It is widely acknowledged that characteristics of the general information-processing system
in which sentence formulation occurs may provide constraints on syntax in language use …

Abstract Effects of context on processes involved in understanding discourse were
investigated. An experimental context designed to directly affect discourse processing by …

We used Chinese prenominal relative clauses (RC s) to test the predictions of two
competing accounts of sentence comprehension difficulty: the experience‐based account of …

Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the
processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research …

We discuss theories of sentence parsing, paying particular attention to claims about how
context may affect the resolution of syntactic ambiguities. We defend the garden-path theory …

Sentence Processing 251 ferred to. If one had just heard the expression the oil tycoon or the
safe, one might not know just which candidate oil tycoon or which candidate safe was …

Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are
easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region …

Two experiments explored the effects of semantic and pragmatic information on the syntactic
analysis of ambiguous sentences. In both experiments, eye movements were recorded as …