Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced reading.

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 construction of alternative structures or to reanalysis. However, it is also possible that readers of ambiguous sentences save t...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 201 - 217
Main Authors: Swets, Benjamin, Desmet, Timothy, Clifton, Charles, Ferreira, Fernanda
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. January 2008
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