This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence …
Subjects read sentences containing either a syntactically ambiguous prepositional phrase attachment or a syntactically ambiguous reduced relative clause. The sentences were …
KS Binder, SA Duffy, K Rayner - Journal of Memory and Language, 2001 - Elsevier
Three experiments were conducted to assess the impact of the thematic fit and discourse context on the processing of sentences that were initially syntactically ambiguous between …
JC Trueswell - Journal of memory and language, 1996 - Elsevier
The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution was explored in two self-paced reading studies of ambiguous reduced relative clauses. Recent constraint-based models of …
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 …
Two self-paced reading experiments are presented to assess how temporary ambiguities in prepositional phrase attachment are resolved in English verb–noun-phrase–prepositional …
MA Britt - Journal of Memory and Language, 1994 - Elsevier
This research addresses the question of whether the initial interpretation of structurally ambiguous sentences (such as He dropped the book on the chair) is made purely on the …
B Swets, T Desmet, C Clifton, F Ferreira - Memory & Cognition, 2008 - Springer
Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings. Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the …
Two eye-tracking experiments investigated processing of VP-NP attachment ambiguities. Experiment 1 tested sentences in which there was an initial bias toward VP attachment …