Abstract Previous work on Relative Clause attachment has overlooked a crucial grammatical
distinction across both the languages and structures tested: the selective availability of …

The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in
theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object …

This chapter presents two experiments utilizing prosodic adaptations of the structural
priming paradigm. In each experiment, the goal was to explore the relation between the …

Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in
his 1970 paper" The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This' garden path sentence' …

When a relative clause (RC) follows two nouns (N1, N2) in a complex noun phrase such as
that contained in the example English sentence below, the preferred interpretation has been …

People sometimes misinterpret the sentences that they read. One possible reason
suggested in the literature is a race between slow bottom-up algorithmic processing and …

Cuetos and Mitchell 1988, and much subsequent work, report that speakers of different
languages differ in Relative Clause attachment preferences in complex NPs. These findings …

Although the majority of research on adult SLA has been fueled by a concern for product
(mental representation, output), research and theory on L2 processing and parsing have …

Un supuesto recurrente en la psicolingüística es que ciertos principios universales de
economía computacional guían las decisiones estructurales tomadas durante el …

En este trabajo se evaluó el papel de la animacidad en la desambiguación de cláusulas de
relativo con doble antecedente en portugués europeo (PE). El estudio de cómo resuelve el …