Ni, Crain, and Shankweiler (1996) present evidence to suggest that the focus operator only
can guide how reduced relative clause sentences are initially parsed. In this paper, we …

Desmet, Brysbaert, and De Baecke (2002a) showed that the production of relative clauses
following two potential attachment hosts (eg,'Someone shot the servant of the actress who …

The present study compares the processing of unambiguous restrictive and non-restrictive
relative clauses (RCs) within both a null context and a supportive discourse using a self …

▪ Abstract Readers and listeners use linguistic structure in comprehending sentences and
texts. We review research, mostly published in the past five years, that addresses the …

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is
fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical …

Two approaches characterize the current state of research in sentence processing. Both
approaches aim to arrive at a well-grounded analysis of relevant constraints the construction …

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 …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …

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