The Contributions of Verb Bias and Plausibility to the Comprehension of Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences

摘要: Eyetracking and the self-paced moving-window reading paradigm were used in two experiments examining contributions of both frequency-based verb biases plausibility particular word combinations to comprehension temporarily ambiguous sentences. The temporary ambiguity concerned whether a noun following was its direct object (The senator regretted decision immediately.), or instead subject an embedded clause had been made public.). crossed as (e.g.,The . .vsThe reporter .) with bias, eliminating confound present earlier research allowing examination interactions between factors. Unbiased verbs included well evaluate role absence bias. results generally replicated Trueswell, Tanenhaus, Kello's (1993) finding that bias has rapid effects on resolution, showed addition interact during comprehension. are most consistent parallel interactive models language such constraint satisfaction models.