This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

As listeners and readers, we rarely notice the ambiguities that pervade our everyday
language. When we hear the proverbTime flies like an arrow'we might ponder its meaning …

Eye movements to pictures of four objects on a screen were monitored as participants
followed a spoken instruction to move one of the objects, eg,“Pick up the beaker; now put it …

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated ambiguity resolution in sentences containing
adjunct modifiers. The experiments tested readers' response to sentences that began with a …

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 …

Six experiments investigated how lexical constraints influence syntactic analysis during an
ambiguous region of an isolated sentence. We focused on prepositional phrase (PP) …

Comrie (1989) makes a distinction between two different approaches to crosslinguistic
research. The first approach follows from the work of Greenberg, who attempted to establish …

How do we compute the meanings of written words? For decades, the basic mechanisms
underlying visual word recognition have remained controversial. The intuitions of educators …

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Lexical Constraint-Based Analysis Author(s): Hana Filip Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth …

Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model. This model requires the ordering: D-
structure $> $ S-structure $> $ LF. Between each of these representations there is …