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The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution

MacDonald, Maryellen C., Pearlmutter, Neal J., Seidenberg, Mark S.·1994·Psychological Review

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Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations and be resolved by different mechanisms. An alternative account is provided in which both types of ambiguity derive from aspects of lexical representation and are resolved by the same processing mechanisms. Reinterpreting syntactic ambiguity resolution as a form of lexical ambiguity resolution obviates the need for special parsing principles to account for syntactic interpretation preferences, reconciles a number of apparently conflicting results concerning the roles of lexical and contextual information in sentence processing, explains differences among ambiguities in terms of ease of resolution, and provides a more unified account of language comprehension than was previously available.

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Authors: MacDonald, M. C., Pearlmutter, N. J., & Seidenberg, M. S.
Affiliations: University of Southern California (US)
ORCID: MacDonald, Maryellen C.
Seidenberg, Mark S.
Venue: Psychological Review
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1994
Volume: 101
Issue: 4
Pages: 676-703
ISSN: 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
1939-1471
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.101.4.676
OpenAlex: W2028041302
Cited by: 2,259
References: 128
Citations by year: 2026: 68 · 2025: 41 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 95 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 65 · 2019: 150 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 88 · 2016: 85 · 2015: 87 · 2014: 119 · 2013: 94 · 2012: 57
FWCI: 16.12
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute on Aging (R01AG010109, AG-10109)
National Institute of Mental Health (1-F32-MH10592-01, F32MH010592, MH-47566, P01MH047566)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Keywords: syntactic ambiguity resolution, lexical ambiguity resolution, lexical ambiguity, sentence processing, language comprehension, lexical representation, syntactic analysis, contextual information
MeSH terms: Cognition, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Humans, Models, Psychological, Speech Perception, Vocabulary

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The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution

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