Using evidence from eye-tracking studies, Van Gompel, Pickering, Pearson, and Liversedge
(2005) have argued against currently implemented constraint-based models of syntactic …

We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated whether alternative syntactic
analyses compete during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Previous research (Traxler …

In this chapter, we focus on a previously ignored aspect of sentence processing theories: is
processing difficulty caused by reanalysis or competition? According to two-stage theories …

This article presents two self-paced reading experiments which investigate the role of
storage costs associated with maintaining incomplete syntactic dependencies in structural …

In a recent series of publications (Traxler et al. J Mem Lang 39: 558–92, 1998; Van Gompel
et al. J Mem Lang 52: 284–07, 2005; see also Van Gompel et al.(In: Kennedy, et al.(eds) …

Natural languages contain probabilistic constraints that influence the resolution of
ambiguities. Current models of sentence processing agree that probabilistic constraints …

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated two frequency-based processing accounts: the
serial lexical-guidance account, in which people adopt the analysis compatible with the most …

Subjects were presented with strongly past-participle biased sentences such as, The portrait
sketched by the tree was very beautiful, in a self-paced reading time task. Sentences were …

A great deal of experimental evidence supports the intuition that language comprehension
takes place immediately and incrementally. For example, listeners can shadow speech …

This paper proposes a model of how working memory capacity constrains a reader′ s
ability to maintain multiple interpretations of a lexical ambiguity during reading …