Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism

E Gibson, N Pearlmutter, E Canseco-Gonzalez… - Cognition, 1996 - Elsevier
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 …

The influence of referential processing on sentence complexity

T Warren, E Gibson - Cognition, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …

Context effects in sentence comprehension: A study of the subjective lexicon

C Conrad - Memory & Cognition, 1974 - Springer
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 …

Relative clause processing in Mandarin: Evidence from the maze task

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 …

The social component of the projection behavior of clausal complement contents

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 …

The interaction of syntax and semantics during sentence processing: Eye movements in the analysis of semantically biased sentences

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 …

Context effects in lexical processing

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 …

Priming in sentence comprehension: Strategic or syntactic?

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 …

Component processes in text comprehension and some of their interactions.

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 …

Discourse comprehension and sources of individual differences

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 …