Reanalysis in sentence processing: evidence against current constraint-based and two-stage models

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Test subjects given English sentences with noun phrase and verb phrase ambiguity. Subjects were able to process sentences with verb phrase ambiguity more quickly than those with noun phrase ambiguity. These findings seem to debunk the theory of constraint-based lexicalist models.

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The preservation of structure in language comprehension: is reanalysis the last resort?

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Studies at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow show that subjects who are attempting to understand an ambiguous sentence will resort to reanalyzing the grammar only as a final effort toward comprehension.

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Context effects in coercion: Evidence from eye movements

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Four eye-movement monitoring studies examined the processing of expressions argued to require enriched semantic composition. It is suggested that interpretation is costly when composition requires the online construction of a sense not lexically stored or available in the immediate discourse.

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