Lexical constraints and prepositional phrase attachment

JE Boland, H Boehm-Jernigan - Journal of Memory and Language, 1998 - Elsevier
Six experiments investigated how lexical constraints influence syntactic analysis during an
ambiguous region of an isolated sentence. We focused on prepositional phrase (PP) …

The use of structural, lexical, and pragmatic information in parsing attachment ambiguities

J Sedivy, M Spivey-Knowlton - Perspectives on sentence …, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
It is by now a commonplace observation that many sentences occurring in natural language
are at least temporarily ambiguous between more than one interpretation. Given that …

Resolving attachment ambiguities with multiple constraints

M Spivey-Knowlton, JC Sedivy - Cognition, 1995 - Elsevier
Different theories of syntactic ambiguity resolution argue for different sources of information
determining initial parsing decisions (eg, structurally defined parsing principles, lexically …

The effects of thematic fit and discourse context on syntactic ambiguity resolution

KS Binder, SA Duffy, K Rayner - Journal of Memory and Language, 2001 - Elsevier
Three experiments were conducted to assess the impact of the thematic fit and discourse
context on the processing of sentences that were initially syntactically ambiguous between …

Discourse influences during parsing are delayed

K Rayner, S Garrod, CA Perfetti - Cognition, 1992 - Elsevier
Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …

Constituent attachment and thematic role assignment in sentence processing: Influences of content-based expectations

R Taraban, JL McClelland - Journal of memory and language, 1988 - Elsevier
The experiments reported here use individual word reading times in a self-paced word-by-
word reading task to examine the processing of prepositional phrase constituents in …

Argumenthood and English prepositional phrase attachment

CT Schütze, E Gibson - Journal of memory and language, 1999 - Elsevier
Two self-paced reading experiments are presented to assess how temporary ambiguities in
prepositional phrase attachment are resolved in English verb–noun-phrase–prepositional …

The interaction of referential ambiguity and argument structure in the parsing of prepositional phrases

MA Britt - Journal of Memory and Language, 1994 - Elsevier
This research addresses the question of whether the initial interpretation of structurally
ambiguous sentences (such as He dropped the book on the chair) is made purely on the …

Argument status and PP-attachment

JE Boland, A Blodgett - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2006 - Springer
Prepositional phrase attachment was investigated in temporarily ambiguous sentences.
Both attachment site (noun phrase or verb phrase) and argument status (argument or …

Priming prepositional-phrase attachment during comprehension.

HP Branigan, MJ Pickering… - Journal of Experimental …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Strong evidence suggests that prior syntactic context affects language production (eg, JK
Bock, 1986). The authors report 4 experiments that used an expression-picture matching …