Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on two types of ambiguity: lexical and syntactic
ambiguity. The two kinds of ambiguity can interact—for example, adopting noun vs. verb …

Two experiments investigated the role of individual differences in reading span in the
comprehension of ambiguous sentences that were resolved with a syntactically simple …

Although languages exhibit many types of ambiguity, most research on ambiguity resolution
has focused on lexical and syntactic ambiguities. The theories that have dominated lexical …

Previous models of the computation of word meanings in sentence context have claimed
either that context causes only one meaning of an ambiguous word to be processed or that …

Two experiments investigated comprehension of noun/verb lexical category ambiguities
such as trains, in order to determine whether resolution of these ambiguities was similar to …

Various processing principles have been suggested to be governing the resolution of
quantifier scope ambiguities in sentences such as Every kid climbed in a tree. This paper …

The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution was explored in two self-paced
reading studies of ambiguous reduced relative clauses. Recent constraint-based models of …

Three language information-processing tasks intended to introduce different levels of
comprehension were studied. The Ss (a) judged whether a setence was meaningful,(b) …

Two hypotheses concerning the nature of lexical access, the exhaustive access and the
terminating ordered search hypotheses, were examined in two separate studies using a …