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The Effect of Nonadopted Analyses on Sentence Processing
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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Sturt, Patrick; Pickering, Martin J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Are comprehenders affected by an alternative analysis that they do not adopt (a nonadopted analysis) in case of syntactic ambiguity? If the processor only considers and maintains the preferred analysis at a given time, an alternative analysis is then not considered and will hence not affect processing. In two experiments, we examined the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics)