Two experiments are described in which participants read sentences of the form “He drank some . . .” in contexts which either did or did not introduce something drinkable. Participants were more likely to report that the sentence stopped making sense at the verb “drank” if nothing drinkable had been introduced. When participants responded, in this case, that the verb did make sense, their react...

When reading a sentence, people do not have access to all its words at once, instead they process each word in turn as it is read (or heard) off the input string. Furthermore, readers do not wait for the last word of the sentence in order to start the process of understanding the meaning of the sentence (Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980, with references therein). Sentences are parsed incrementally a...

Corpus studies by Schuler, AbdelRahman, Miller, and Schwartz (2010), appear to support a model of comprehension taking place in a general-purpose working memory store, by providing an existence proof that a simple probabilistic sequence model over stores of up to four syntacticallycontiguous memory elements has the capacity to reconstruct phrase structure trees for over 99.9% of the sentences i...

To be able to reach the level of ultimate attainment in the second language, learners need to acquire not only the grammar of the L2 but also the language processing mechanisms involved in the comprehension of sentences in real time. Contrary to its importance, very little is known yet about online L2 processing. This study examines whether advanced Iranian learners of English reactivate disloc...

Definite Clause Grammars (DCGs) have proved valuable to computational linguists since they can be used to specify phrase structured grammars. It is well known how to encode DCGs in Horn clauses. Some linguistic phenomena, such as filler-gap dependencies, are difficult to account for in a completely satisfactory way using simple phrase structured grammar. In the literature of logic grammars ther...

P-element transposition is thought to occur by a cut-and paste mechanism that generates a double-strand break at the donor site, the repair of which can lead to internally deleted elements. We have generated a series of both phenotypically stronger and weaker allelic derivatives of vg21, a vestigial mutant caused by a P-element insertion in the 5' region of the gene. Virtually all of the new al...

The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate marginal integrity and wall adaptation in 1- and 2-mm-deep cavities restored with a high filler-loaded flowable composite in comparison to a flowable composite with lower filler content and a conventional hybrid composite. 1-mm-deep dentin and 2-mm-deep enamel-dentin Class I cavities were prepared and restored with a self-etch adhesive and with...