In Bach and Cooper (1978) a semantics is proposed for adjoined relative clauses in Hittite and for the NP S analysis of English relatives within the general framework of Montague (1974). The aim of their analysis is to show that a potentially serious set of counterexamples to the compositionality thesis the thesis that the interpretation of a construction is a function of the interpretations of...

Cognitive mechanisms sustaining reading, viewing and working memory are mostly independently examined. In this study, we investigate their interaction in a visual-world priming task. Participants first read relative clauses (RC) morphologically disambiguated for high-(to NP1, HA) or low-attachment (to NP2, LA) (e.g., The helper|helpers of the bakers|baker who will [sg] deliver the bread has|hav...

The role of lexical frequency in syntactic ambiguity resolution was explored in two selfpaced reading studies of ambiguous reduced relative clauses. Recent constraint-based models of syntactic ambiguity resolution have proposed that for a reduced relative clause (e.g., ‘‘The room searched by the police was . . .’’), both the participle and past tense forms of the ambiguous verb (‘‘searched’’) a...