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Angele, Bernhard; Laishley, Abby E.; Rayner, Keith; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In a previous gaze-contingent boundary experiment, Angele and Rayner (2013) found that readers are likely to skip a word that appears to be the definite article "the" even when syntactic constraints do not allow for articles to occur in that position. In the present study, we investigated whether the word frequency of the preview of a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles; Rayner, Keith; Deevy, Patricia; Koh, Sungryong; Bader, Markus – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Five experiments investigated the interpretation of quantified noun phrases in relation to discourse structure. They demonstrated, using questionnaire and on-line reading techniques, that readers in English prefer to give a quantified noun phrase in (VP-external) subject position a presuppositional interpretation, in which the noun phrase limits…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns