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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …