We explore the implications of an event-based expectancy generation approach to language understanding, suggesting that one useful strategy employed by comprehenders …
We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated whether alternative syntactic analyses compete during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Previous research (Traxler …
Three experiments investigated the use of verb argument structure by tracking participants' eye movements across a set of related pictures as they listened to sentences. The …
This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …
C Frenck-Mestre - Handbook of bilingualism, 2005 - hal.science
Second language sentence processing is examined here in light of several monolingual psycholinguistic models of parsing, as well as that of linguistic theories specifically adapted …
CL Gagné, TL Spalding, MC Gorrie - Language and Speech, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Two experiments investigated the influence of sentential context on the relative ease of deriving a particular meaning for novel and familiar compounds. Experiment 1 determined …
F Vitu - Cognitive processes in eye guidance, 2005 - books.google.com
When reading a text, our eyes mainly move forward by going from one word to the next, although they happen in some instances to return to previous regions of the text. This …
MJ Traxler - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2005 - Springer
A self-paced reading experiment investigated processing of sentences containing a noun- phrase that could temporarily be mistaken as the direct-object argument of a verb in a …