Reading sentences with a late closure ambiguity: Does semantic information help?
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Reading Sentences with a Late Closure Ambiguity: Does Semantic Information Help?
Stowe (1989) reported that semantic information eliminates garden paths in sentences with the direct-object vs. subject ambiguity, such as Even before the police stopped the driver was very frightened. Three experiments are presented which addressed some methodological problems in Stowe's study. Experiment 1, using a word-by-word, self-paced reading task with grammaticality judgements, manipula...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language and Cognitive Processes
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0169-0965,1464-0732
DOI: 10.1080/01690960143000029