underspecification

Delayed attachment commitments for parenthetical relative clauses: An eye-tracking study

We investigate how not-at-issue content is integrated into a sentence by comparing the online attachment of parenthetical relative clauses to that of better-studied restrictive relative clauses. In an eye-tracking experiment, we report an early …

Resolving ambiguous VP ellipsis in eye tracking: A case for underspecification

Making sense of Kafka: Structural biases induce early sense commitment for metonyms

Prior research suggests that the language processor initially activates an underspecified representation of a metonym consistent with all its senses, potentially selecting a specific sense if supported by contextual and lexical information. We …