Parsing arguments: Phrase structure and argument structure as determinants of initial parsing decisions.

摘要: Abstract Two experiments measured reading times for sentences with prepositional phrases whose syntactic analyses were disambiguated by plausibility considerations (e.g., “The saleswoman tried to interest the man in wallet during storewide sale” vs. his fifties sale.”) Reading immediately upon encountering disambiguating information faster when phrase modified a verb than it noun, suggesting an initial preference former analysis. However, later sentence was argument rather adjunct of whatever word modified, final arguments over adjuncts. The results discussed terms their implications theories parsing that claim decisions are made on basis about part speech words together structure rules, and specific frames associated individual lexical items guide parsing.