Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced reading
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Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: evidence from self-paced reading.
Syntactically ambiguous sentences are sometimes read faster than disambiguated strings. Models of parsing have explained this tendency by appealing either to a race in the construction of alternative structures or to reanalysis. However, it is also possible that readers of ambiguous sentences save time by strategically underspecifying interpretations of ambiguous attachments. In a self-paced re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/mc.36.1.201