The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution

JC Trueswell - Journal of memory and language, 1996 - Elsevier
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 …

Context effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution: Discourse and semantic influences in parsing reduced relative clauses.

MJ Spivey-Knowlton, JC Trueswell… - Canadian Journal of …, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
This article examines how certain types of semantic and discourse context affect the
processing of relative clauses which are temporarily ambiguous between a relative clause …

Syntactic ambiguity resolution in discourse: modeling the effects of referential context and lexical frequency.

MJ Spivey, MK Tanenhaus - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
Sentences with temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses (eg, The actress selected
by the director believed that...) were preceded by discourse contexts biasing a main clause …

Probabilistic constraints and syntactic ambiguity resolution

MC MacDonald - Language and cognitive processes, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
Natural languages contain probabilistic constraints that influence the resolution of
ambiguities. Current models of sentence processing agree that probabilistic constraints …

The contributions of verb bias and plausibility to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences

SM Garnsey, NJ Pearlmutter, E Myers… - Journal of memory and …, 1997 - Elsevier
Eyetracking and the self-paced moving-window reading paradigm were used in two
experiments examining the contributions of both frequency-based verb biases and the …

Individual differences and probabilistic constraints in syntactic ambiguity resolution

NJ Pearlmutter, MC MacDonald - Journal of memory and language, 1995 - Elsevier
Two experiments investigated the role of individual differences in reading span in the
comprehension of ambiguous sentences that were resolved with a syntactically simple …

Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses

SP Gennari, MC MacDonald - Journal of memory and language, 2008 - Elsevier
This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of
complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence …

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 …

Tense, temporal context and syntactic ambiguity resolution

JC Trueswell, MK Tanenhaus - Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
During sentence comprehension, events denoted by verbs must be related to other events
already established in the discourse. This often requires the tense of a verb to be evaluated …

The interaction of lexical and syntactic ambiguity

MC MacDonald - Journal of memory and language, 1993 - Elsevier
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 …