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    "title": "Plausibility and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution",
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    "abstract": "Different theories of human syntactic parsing make conflicting claims concerning the role of non-syntactic information (e.g. semantics, real world knowledge) on on-line parsing. W e address this debate by examining the effect of plausibility of thematic role assignments on the processing of syntactic ambiguities. In a selfpaced reading experiment, ambiguous condition reading times were longer than unambiguous condition times at the point of syntactic disambiguation only when plausibility cues had supported the incorrect interpretation. Off-line measures of plausibility also predicted reading time effects in regression analyses. These results indicate that plausibility information m ay influence thematic role assignment and the initial interpretation of a syntactic ambiguity, and they argue against parsing models in which the syntactic component is blind to plausibility information.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Talks",
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        {
            "first_name": "Neal",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Pealmutter",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Maryellen",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "MacDonald",
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            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "1992-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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