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...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 201 - 217 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
January 2008
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