title: Processing coordinated structures: incrementality and connectedness.
abstract: We recorded participants' eye movements while they read sentences containing verb-phrase coordination. Results showed evidence of immediate processing disruption when a reflexive pronoun embedded in the conjoined verb phrase mismatched the sentence subject. We argue that this result is incompatible with models of human parsing that employ only bottom-up parsing procedures, even when flexible constituency is employed. Models need to incorporate a mechanism similar to the adjoining operation in Tree-Adjoining Grammar, in which one structure is inserted into another.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, ScotlandDipartimento di Informatica, Universitá di Torino, Italy.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sturt
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lombardo