The influence of contextual contrast on syntactic processing: Evidence for strong-interaction in sentence comprehension

D Grodner, E Gibson, D Watson - Cognition, 2005 - Elsevier
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 …

Context effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution: Discourse and semantic influences in parsing reduced relative clauses.

MJ Spivey-Knowlton, JC Trueswell… - Canadian Journal of …, 1993 - psycnet.apa.org
This article examines how certain types of semantic and discourse context affect the
processing of relative clauses which are temporarily ambiguous between a relative clause …

Global and local context effects in sentence processing

DJ Foss, SR Speer - … and the symbolic processes: Applied and …, 1991 - books.google.com
As your eye darts across this page, the material in successive fixations is integrated, yielding
the (veridical) impression that the world of the page is relatively stable and predictable …

Lexical mediation and context effects in sentence processing

MJ Traxler, KM Tooley - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
Studies of syntactic ambiguity resolution have played a central role in resolving questions
about when and how contextual information affects parsing processes. These investigations …

Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: The role of lexical and contextual information

D Papadopoulou, H Clahsen - Journal of Linguistics, 2006 - cambridge.org
This study investigates how the parser employs thematic and contextual information in
resolving temporary ambiguities during sentence processing. We report results from a …

Complex sentence processing: A review of theoretical perspectives on the comprehension of relative clauses

PC Gordon, MW Lowder - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A major goal of psycholinguistics is to gain a better understanding of how syntactically
complex sentences are processed. Pursuit of this goal has frequently focused on the …

Syntactic ambiguity resolution in discourse: modeling the effects of referential context and lexical frequency.

MJ Spivey, MK Tanenhaus - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
Sentences with temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses (eg, The actress selected
by the director believed that…) were preceded by discourse contexts biasing a main clause …

Processing Chinese relative clauses in context

E Gibson, HHI Wu - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a self-paced reading experiment comparing the processing of subject-
extracted relative clauses (SRCs) and object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) in supportive …

Referential context effects on syntactic processing

WS Murray, SP Liversedge - Perspectives on sentence processing, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Probably the longest-running debate in psycholinguistics concerns the question of whether
there are contextual influences on the process of syntactic parsing. The precise nature of this …

The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution

JC Trueswell - Journal of memory and language, 1996 - Elsevier
The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution was explored in two self-paced
reading studies of ambiguous reduced relative clauses. Recent constraint-based models of …