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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Grammatical search and reanalysis

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A study is presented that shows that reanalysis of the grammar of an ambigous sentence is used as a last resort. Readers seek other ways to clear the ambiguity of a sentence first.

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The use of lexical and syntactic information in language production: evidence from the priming of noun-phrase structure

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The relationship between syntactic information and other aspects of lexical representation is studied with a view to understanding the representation and activation of lexical information during language production. Syntactic priming at the level of the noun phrase was demonstrated as against the earlier premise that it was based on complete sentences.

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