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Peer reviewedPynte, Joel; Prieur, Benedicte – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The role of prosodic breaks (PB) in the parsing of locally ambiguous noun phrases (NP) + verb (V) + NP + prepositional phrase (PP) was examined in four word-monitoring experiments. Results indicate that PBs can influence sentence parsing. The article discusses possible mechanisms in the framework of two models. (32 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Models, Nouns, Phrase Structure
