The problems of access—retrieving linguistic structure from some mental grammar—and
disambiguation—choosing among these structures to correctly parse ambiguous linguistic …

I should clarify at the outset what I mean by the term parser. I take this to refer specifically to
tht: structure building system that it used in sentence recognition, and not to the many other …

There are currently a number of psycholinguistic models in which processing at a particular
level of representation is characterized by the generation of multiple outputs, with resolution …

A central issue in the study of sentence processing is the manner in which various sources
of information are used in resolving structural ambiguities. According to one proposal, the …

In this paper the relative frequencies of the possible resolutions of ambiguities involving
noun phrase attachment sites are compared to the results of off-line psycholinguistic …

How the brain segregates information has been an important issue in the neural and
cognitive sciences for a century or more. In the smaller, and younger, subfield of …

Forty‐five adult second language learners of English participated in this study, which
investigated syntactically ambiguous sentences in which a prepositional phrase is …

This thesis explores two questions about the role of prosody in language. From the
perspective of speech production, it examines the regularity with which speakers provide …

The goal of this dissertation is to develop a framework for characterizing routine inferencing
during immediate sentence comprehension. Whether our understanding of sentences …

Constraint-Based Models and Modification Ambiguities Page 1 Constraint-Based Models and
Modification Ambiguities Maryellen C. MacDonald & Robert Thornton University of Southern …