Linguists have long begged the question of what really goes on in the brain when one reads
a sentence and processes its meaning. This study aims to discover more about the linguistic …

Forty‐five adult second language learners of English participated in this study, which
investigated syntactically ambiguous sentences in which a prepositional phrase is …

This study investigates the way adult second language (L2) learners of English resolve
relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of …

Language comprehension occurs rapidly as the input is received, and readers need to
update the given information quickly. However, understanding garden path sentences with …

The current thesis aims to examine whether L1 and L2 speakers of English differ from each
other in terms of parsing and comprehension of temporarily ambiguous or garden-path …

This study compares the way English-speaking children and adult second language
learners of English resolve relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The …

To pinpoint difficulties in the second language (L2) processing of temporarily ambiguous
sentences, this study investigates first language (L1) effects and effects of verb bias, ie …

Verb bias facilitates parsing of temporarily ambiguous sentences, but it is unclear when and
how comprehenders use probabilistic knowledge about the combinatorial properties of …

Some sentences are hard to read, and we don't fully understand why. Memory-based and
expectation-based constraints both attempt to explain sentence processing difficulties, and …

In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self …