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

A crucial part of understanding a sentence is to construct its syntactic structure. Without this,
it would be very difficult for language users to determine that sentences with different word …

Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limited type of
underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably been …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the effects of verb information on parsing. The
chapter outlines the garden-path model proposed by Frazier and Rayner, in which initial …

The topic addressed in this volume lies within the study of sentence processing, which is
one of the major divisions of psycholinguistics. The goal has been to understand the …

The process of sentence parsing is clearly influenced by the detailed information recovered
from the lexicon for each successive word that appears in the sentence. This information …

Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

The general foundations for a theory of human sentence processing and the basic goals and
questions of the 1960s are argued to be solid and still very relevant today, even if the …

Numerous problems have to be solved in the course of interpreting a sentence. First, the
individual words have to be identified. making stored information available for higher level …

Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose
syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (eg,“The saleswoman …