{"pk":31321,"title":"Consulting Temporal Context During Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from the Monitoring of Eye Movements in Reading","subtitle":null,"abstract":"An important aspect of language processing is the comprehender's ability to determine temporal relations between an event denoted by a verb and events already established in the discourse. This often requires the tense of a verb to be evaluated in relation to specific temporal discourse properties. W e investigate the time course of this process by examining how the temporal properties of a discourse influence the initial processing of temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses. M u c h of tfie empirical work on the reading of reduced relative clauses has revealed that readers experience a large mis-analysis effect (or *gardenpatfi') in reduced relatives like \"The student spotted bv the proctor received a warning\" because the reader has initially interpreted the verb \"spotted\" as a past tense verb in a main clause. Recent results from an eye movement study are provided which irnlicate that this mis-analysis of relative clauses can be eliminated when the temporal constraints of a discourse do not easily permit a main clause past tense interpretation. Such a flnding strongly suggests that readers process tense in relation to the temporal properties of the discourse, and that constraints from these properties can n^ndly influence processing at a stnKtural level.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5692t5pz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Trueswell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Tanenhaus","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/31321/galley/22390/download/"}]}