Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on
typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field …

Two self-paced reading experiments are presented to assess how temporary ambiguities in
prepositional phrase attachment are resolved in English verb–noun-phrase–prepositional …

Understanding language requires readers and listeners to cull meaning from fast-unfolding
messages that often contain conflicting cues pointing to incompatible ways of interpreting …

Until recently, theoretical linguists have paid little attention to the frequency of linguistic
elements in grammar and grammatical development. It is a standard assumption of (most) …

Three experiments investigated the use of verb argument structure by tracking participants'
eye movements across a set of related pictures as they listened to sentences. The …

One of the best known kinds of syntactic ambiguity in the sentence processing literature
involves the possible attachments of prepositional phrases (PPs) in V-NP-PP sequences, as …

Much work on child sentence processing has demonstrated that children are able to use
various linguistic cues to incrementally resolve temporary syntactic ambiguities, but they fail …

Theories of sentence processing can be classified by the role that lexical heads play in first-
pass parsing. In some theories, syntactic structure cannot even be built before it is licensed …

Verbs often participate in more than 1 syntactic structure, but individual verbs can be biased
in terms of whether they are used more often with 1 structure or the other. For instance, in a …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …