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

Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose
syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (eg,“The saleswoman …

Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings.
Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …

The parsing principle of minimal attachment predicts that a noun phrase occurring after
verbs such as “report” or “indicate” will first be assumed by readers to be the direct object of …

Abstract Mitchell (1987) conducted a self-paced reading experiment that showed that people
experienced difficulty reading a noun phrase when it immediately followed an intransitive …

Two eye-movement experiments examined the processing of sentences containing reduced
relative constructions. In the first experiment, animacy of the sentential subject, structural …

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

Using the single-word self-paced reading task, three experiments investigated parsing of
temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. The verbs differed in the …

Three experiments were conducted to determine whether individual words can influence the
course of parsing in an on-line subject-paced reading task. The materials were sentences …

Carried out 2 S-paced reading experiments to examine the way in which discourse
information exerts its influence in sentence comprehension. The results show that whereas …