Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences in which two noun
phrases or two independent clauses were connected by the word or (NP-coordination and S …

Two studies investigated the interaction between utterance and scene processing by
monitoring eye movements in agent–action–patient events, while participants listened to …

High above the clouds of California, I feel an acute sense of loss. Yesterday I walked
through golden hills. The last five years have been full of experiences that I wouldn't have …

In three structural priming experiments, we investigated temporarily ambiguous se ntences
such as While the man was visiting the children who were surprisingly pleasant and funny …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

Previous psycholinguistic research has shown that a variety of contextual factors can
influence the interpretation of syntactically ambiguous structures, but psycholinguistic …

This paper tests two claims about the thematic roles Agent and Patient: first, that they can be
decomposed into more primitive features, as laid out in Dowty's (1991) Proto-Roles …

Using evidence from eye-tracking studies, Van Gompel, Pickering, Pearson, and Liversedge
(2005) have argued against currently implemented constraint-based models of syntactic …

Older and younger adults' abilities to use context information rapidly during ambiguity
resolution were investigated. In Experiments 1 and 2, younger and older adults heard …

Inspired by adult models of language production and comprehension, we investigate
whether children's nonadult interpretation of ambiguous negative quantified sentences …