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Kim, Ji Hyon; Christianson, Kiel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
Two self-paced reading experiments using a paraphrase decision task paradigm were performed to investigate how sentence complexity contributed to the relative clause (RC) attachment preferences of speakers of different working memory capacities (WMCs). Experiment 1 (English) showed working memory effects on relative clause processing in both…
Descriptors: Preferences, Korean, Decision Making, Task Analysis
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Traxler, Matthew J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Semantics, Nouns, Figurative Language