This paper reports the results of five experiments designed to investigate the effects of referential processing on sentence complexity. Gibson (Cognition, 68 (1998) 1) suggested …
These studies explore the role of context in determining what information about the meanings of words is activated in memory at the time a word is encountered in a sentence …
X Qiao, L Shen, K Forster - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
T Mahler - Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of …, 2020 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Some accounts of presupposition projection predict that content's consistency with the Common Ground influences whether it projects (eg, Heim 1983, Gazdar 1979a, b). I …
K Rayner, M Carlson, L Frazier - Journal of verbal learning and verbal …, 1983 - Elsevier
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 …
MK Tanenhaus, MM Lucas - Cognition, 1987 - Elsevier
This article examines the extent to which word recognition is influenced by lexical, syntactic, and semantic contexts in order to contrast predictions made by modular and interactive …
MJ Traxler, KM Tooley - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Two eye-tracking experiments and two self-paced reading experiments investigated processing of sentences containing reduced relative clauses. Processing of a reduced …
KF Haberlandt, AC Graesser - Journal of experimental psychology …, 1985 - psycnet.apa.org
When a text is read, an emergent meaning representation is constructed which reflects the essential ideas and the causal relations of the passage. Word, sentence, and text levels of …
CA Perfetti, AM Lesgold - Cognitive processes in comprehension, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
In this paper we will discuss certain aspects of discourse comprehension with reference to individual differences. The first section briefly describes some general principles of …