Over the past 25 years of sentence processing research, hardly any other phenomenon has generated more experimental evidence and theoretical explanations than the apparent violations of Late Closure (Frazier and Fodor 1978) observed with the relative clause attachment ambiguity. Under the Late Closure principle, local attachments are preferred over non-local ones. Accordingly, the structural am...

This paper proposes a new analysis of Internally-Headed Relative Clauses (IHRC) in Japanese in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) which defines IHRC in terms of the feature specification of the main predicate. IHRC is characterized as a special type of headcomplement structure, in which the predicate has highly marked ARG-ST and VAL features corresponding to IHRC. Motivated by diachron...

A standard assumption in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and computational research on pronoun use is that production and interpretation are guided by the same set of contextual factors. Kehler et al. (2008) and Kehler & Rohde (2013) have argued instead for a Bayesian model, one in which pronoun production is insensitive to a class of semanticallyand pragmaticallydriven contextual biases that hav...