Unforced revision in processing relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence against revision as last resort

T Yamada, M Arai, Y Hirose - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017 - Springer
The current study tackles a long standing question of whether comprehenders perform
structural revision when it is not forced by grammar or not. Using an eye-tracking reading …

[PDF][PDF] Preservation of the initial analysis in absence of pragmatic inference with Japanese relative clause sentences

C Nakamura, M Arai - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2012 - escholarship.org
Previous studies reported that language comprehenders tend to preserve the initial incorrect
analysis with temporarily ambiguous sentences following structural reanalysis (Christianson …

Ambiguity of reanalysis in parsing complex sentences in Japanese

Y Hirose, A Inoue - Sentence processing: A crosslinguistic perspective, 1998 - brill.com
This chapter investigates the ambiguity resolution process in relative clause reanalysis and
to determine what kinds of factors differentiate easy and difficult relative clauses in …

Syntactic reanalysis in human language processing

P Sturt - 1997 - era.ed.ac.uk
This thesis combines theoretical, computational and experimental techniques in the study of
reanalysis in human sentence comprehension. We begin by surveying the main claims of …

Reanalysis and lingering misinterpretation of linguistic dependencies in native and non-native sentence comprehension

H Fujita, I Cunnings - Journal of Memory and Language, 2020 - Elsevier
Research on temporarily ambiguous “garden-path” sentences (eg, After Mary dressed the
baby laughed) has shown that initially assigned misinterpretations linger after reanalysis of …

Persistence of initial misanalysis with no referential ambiguity

C Nakamura, M Arai - Cognitive Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research reported that in processing structurally ambiguous sentences
comprehenders often preserve an initial incorrect analysis even after adopting a correct …

Reading sentences with a late closure ambiguity: Does semantic information help?

S Lipka - Language and cognitive processes, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
In 1989 Stowe reported that semantic information eliminates garden paths in sentences with
the direct-object vs. subject ambiguity, such as Even before the police stopped the driver …

The preservation of structure in language comprehension: Is reanalysis the last resort?

P Sturt, MJ Pickering, C Scheepers… - Journal of Memory and …, 2001 - Elsevier
During language comprehension, people sometimes have to revise their grammatical
analysis of a sentence. Experimental evidence demonstrates that such reanalysis often …

[PDF][PDF] Structural expectations in Chinese relative clause comprehension

Z Chen, K Grove, J Hale - Proceedings of the 29th West Coast …, 2012 - lingref.com
Relative clauses (RC) are among the most well-studied constructions in the field of
psycholinguistics. A wide variety of work explores a robust processing asymmetry such that …

The use of control information in dependency formation: An eye-tracking study

N Kwon, P Sturt - Journal of Memory and Language, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown much evidence that sentence comprehension can be extremely
predictive. However, we currently know little about the limits of predictive processing. In the …