The contribution of prosody to the interpretation of temporary syntactic ambiguity was examined for young and elderly listeners using a sentence-completion task. Temporary syntactic ambiguity refers to cases where it may be temporarily unclear whether a syntactic clause boundary has or has not been reached based on what has been heard in the sentence to that point. Results suggest that both you...

Language and Cognitive Processes Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713683153 Limited syntactic parallelism in Chinese ambiguity resolution Yufen Hsieh a; Julie E. Boland a; Yaxu Zhang b; Ming Yan c a University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA b Peking University, Peking, PR, China c Beijing Norma...

We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated whether alternative syntactic analyses compete during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Previous research (Traxler, Pickering, & Clifton, 1998; Van Gompel, Pickering, & Traxler, 2001) has shown that globally ambiguous sentences are easier to process than disambiguated sentences, suggesting that competition does not explain processing diff...

In 2 experiments, eye movements were monitored as participants followed instructions containing temporary syntactic ambiguities (e.g., "Pour the egg in the bowl over the flour"). The authors varied the affordances of task-relevant objects with respect to the action required by the instruction (e.g., whether 1 or both eggs in the visual workspace were in liquid form, allowing them to be poured)....

1. Linguistic Basis for Computations . . . . . . .153 .1 Immediate Constituent Analysis ....... 154 .2 String Analysis ......... 154 .3 Lcft-to-Kight Scanning and Predictive Analysis .... 155 .4 Transformationul Analysis ........ 156 .5 Other Methods 156 2. A Procedure for Left-to-RightString Decomposition of Sentences . 157 2.1 Word-by-\Vord Formulation of String Structure .... 157 2.2 Indirec...