Illusions of plausibility in adjuncts and co-ordination

Illusions of grammaticality, where ungrammatical sentences are misperceived as grammatical (e.g. The key to the cabinets were rusty), have been widely studied during language comprehension. Such illusions influential in debate surrounding so-called representational and retrieval-based accounts linguistic dependency resolution. Whether analogous plausibility occur at level semantic interpretation has only recently begun be examined, thus far, these restricted a narrow range phenomena. In two eye-tracking reading experiments (n = 48 each) self-paced 192 we examined possibility processing adjuncts co-ordination. Across experiments, our results suggest resolution, though interference effects clearer than We argue that findings more compatible with rather