Processing coordinated structures : Incrementality and connectedness

TL;DR: This paper found that fixation time on a word is shorter if the reader has a valid preview of the word prior to fixating it, and fixation time is shorter when the word is easy to identify and understand.

TL;DR: The authors argue that these results support parsing theories according to which the parser can build predictable syntactic structure before encountering the corresponding lexical input.

TL;DR: The results are interpreted as indicating that similarity-based interference occurs online during the comprehension of complex sentences and that the degree of memory accessibility conventionally associated with different types of NPs does not have a strong effect on sentence processing.

TL;DR: It is found that hierarchical grammars independently predict timecourses from left anterior and posterior temporal lobe and Markov models are predictive in these regions and across a broader network that includes the inferior frontal gyrus.

TL;DR: This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar, introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics," and demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems.

TL;DR: This paper found that shorter reading times for sentences conforming to certain independently motivated parsing strategies (late closure and minimal attachment) than for comparable sentences which violate these strategies, suggesting that the human sentence-parsing mechanism operates in a rather systematic fashion, immediately computing the structural consequences of fixated material for the analysis of preceding material.

TL;DR: The book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of the language faculty in a form accessible to readers from any of those fields.