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Dillon, Brian; Andrews, Caroline; Rotello, Caren M.; Wagers, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
One perennially important question for theories of sentence comprehension is whether the human sentence processing mechanism is "parallel" (i.e., it simultaneously represents multiple syntactic analyses of linguistic input) or "serial" (i.e., it constructs only a single analysis at a time). Despite its centrality, this question…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
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Kaiser, Elsi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
We report two visual-world eye-tracking experiments that investigated the effects of subjecthood, pronominalisation, and contrastive focus on the interpretation of pronouns in subsequent discourse. By probing the effects of these factors on real-time pronoun interpretation, we aim to contribute to our understanding of how topicality-related…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements