{"pk":31851,"title":"The Construction-Integration Model : A Framework for Studying Context Effects in Sentence Processing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Contextual and pragmatic knowledge facilitates the eventual interpretation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence. However, psycholinguistic studies have not provided a clear answer to when and how this non-syntactic knowledge is used. One explanation for the discrepancy of the results is that the predictions for parsing processes in context carmot be specified unless they are based on a theory of text comprehension. The constructionintegration model of discourse comprehension (Kintsch, 1988) is proposed as an example for such a theory. The model is parallel and weakly interactive, and its psychological validity has been shown in a variety of applications. Three simulations for syntactic ambiguity resolutions are presented. In the first, syntactic constraints are used to account for the correct interpretation of a garden-path sentence, as well as for common misparses. In the second example, pragmatic knowledge is used to disambiguate a prepositional phrase attachment. In the final example, it is shown that the model can also account for effects of discourse context in the resolution of prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j3340v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Evelyn","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"FerstI","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Colorado at Boulder","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1994-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31851/galley/22918/download/"}]}