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Carlson, Katy – Language and Speech, 2001
Explored the processing of ambiguous sentences that may be assigned a gapping or nongapping structure. Focuses on what factors affect the ultimate interpretive preferences for these sentences. In a questionnaire, sentences with greater parallelism between arguments received more gapping responses, though an overall bias toward the nongapping…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Questionnaires, Sentence Structure