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 …

Although previous research has shown that listeners can use prosody to resolve syntactic
ambiguities in spoken sentences, it is not clear whether naive, untrained speakers in …

In 2 experiments, a new technique called the auditory moving window was used to
investigate aspects of spoken-language processing. Participants paced their way through …

Researchers in psycholinguistics have speculated about the possible role of prosody in
resolving syntactic ambiguities. We argue in this paper that the issue is complicated by the …

This paper examines the question of whether there are effects of prosody on the syntactic
parsing of temporarily ambiguous sentences containing complement verbs. It reports the …

This paper addresses the question of the way in which prosodic information affects syntactic
processing in locally ambiguous sentences. Two studies were run. The first, based on Beach …

It is now indisputable that language processing is influenced by multiple sources of
information. Understanding spoken language is constrained by a variety of sensory cues, as …

An eye-tracking experiment investigated the role of case-marking in parsing. We
manipulated the case of pronouns in reduced complement sentences like I recognized you …

This thesis investigates the mental representation of syntactic structure. It takes an
interdisciplinary approach which exploits methods and insights from both experimental …

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 …