The central issue of the theory of syntactic processing is universality of principles the
processor 1, short for the human sentence processing mechanism, employs. This amounts …

Over the past 25 years of sentence processing research, hardly any other phenomenon has
generated more experimental evidence and theoretical explanations than the apparent …

The issue of the universality of parsing strategies is a central one in a theory of sentence
processing, and addressing this issue crucially requires cross-linguistic data. While the need …

Five experiments measured reading time for Spanish and English sentences containing a
complex NP followed by a relative clause (eg,…“the daughter of the colonel who had an …

Two questionnaire studies and a reading time experiment investigated the application of the
late-closure principle in Italian, a Romance language which contrasts with English with …

This article presents new evidence from offline and online processing of garden-path
sentences that are ambiguous between reduced relative clause resolution and main verb …

In this paper we discuss the following issue: How do we decide whether a certain property of
language is a competence property or a performance property? Our claim is that the answer …

This study investigates the sources of processing difficulty in complex sentences involving
relative clauses (RCs). Self-paced reading and eye tracking were used to test the …

A rich variety of factors have been proposed as possible determinants of differences in the
ease of processing of relative clauses. These determinants include the grammatical role of …

One central question in sentence processing concerns the relationship between knowledge
of language and the way this knowledge is put to use. This relationship between …