We measured eye movements as people read short stories. The target sentences contained
noun/verb homographs (eg, duck) and were preceded by a biasing context sentence. The …

Three experiments investigated strategies readers use to process locally ambiguous
unbounded dependency constructions. Using self-paced reading, Experiments 1 and 2 …

A number of sentence comprehension models have been developed over the past 30 years
or so. Many of these have been aimed at the central issue of explain ing how people resolve …

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to test competing claims about the
role of executive resources during the disambiguation of a sentence featuring a temporary …

This study investigates the degree to which referential context information influences
structural ambiguity resolution preferences in non-native sentence comprehension, using …

Eyetracking paradigms in both written and spoken modalities are the state of the art for
online behavioral investigations of language comprehension. But it is almost a misnomer to …

Recent research using eye-tracking typically relies on constrained visual contexts in
particular goal-oriented contexts, viewing a small array of objects on a computer screen and …

Experimental research shows that human sentence processing uses information from
different levels of linguistic analysis, for example, lexical and syntactic preferences as well …

When a sentence such as The model embraced the designer and the photographer laughed
is read, the noun phrase the photographer is temporarily ambiguous: It can be either one of …

The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of
Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language …