{"pk":31320,"title":"Another Context Effect in Sentence Processing: Implications for the Principle of Referential Support","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A major goal of psycholinguistics is to determine what sources of information are used immediately in language comprehension, and what sources come into play at later stages. Prepositional phrase attach-ment ambiguities were used in a self-paced reading task to compare contexts that contained one or two possible referents for the verb phrase (VP) in the target sentence. With one set of sentences, a VP-attachment preference was observed in the 2-VP-referent context, but not in the 1-VP-referent context. With another set of sentences, no effect of context was observed. This result falls outside of the scope of the principle of referential support (Altmann & Steedman, 1988) as currently formulated. It suggests that a similar but more broadly-based theory is required.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rb2718f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Spivey-Knowlton","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31320/galley/22389/download/"}]}