Six experiments investigated how lexical constraints influence syntactic analysis during an
ambiguous region of an isolated sentence. We focused on prepositional phrase (PP) …

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 …

Different theories of syntactic ambiguity resolution argue for different sources of information
determining initial parsing decisions (eg, structurally defined parsing principles, lexically …

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 …

Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase
attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …

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 …

Two self-paced reading experiments are presented to assess how temporary ambiguities in
prepositional phrase attachment are resolved in English verb–noun-phrase–prepositional …

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 …

Prepositional phrase attachment was investigated in temporarily ambiguous sentences.
Both attachment site (noun phrase or verb phrase) and argument status (argument or …

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 …