{"pk":49893,"title":"Who and when gets the race? Two processing routes for the advantages and penalties of pronominal ambiguity resolution","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current study investigates how pronominal ambiguity is resolved in real-time, focusing on the role of referent bias and task context. In two self-paced reading experiments, we tested whether ambiguity leads to processing benefits or costs modulated by the presence of a biased referent and the task manipulations. Experiment 1 showed that the ambiguity advantage emerges only when a biased referent is not selected, supporting reanalysis-based accounts such as the unrestricted race model (Van Gompel et al., 2000, 2001, 2005). Experiment 2, however, revealed a delayed ambiguity penalty, suggesting task-induced shifts in processing strategy that better fit a delayed interpretation account. These findings highlight that pronominal ambiguity resolution may involve two processing mechanisms shaped by the parser's evaluation space and the timing of selection.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Language Comprehension; Language understanding; Semantics of language; Syntax"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30m3f2mr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ruoqing","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yao","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Santa Cruz","department":""},{"first_name":"Matt","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wagers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Santa Cruz","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T19:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49893/galley/37855/download/"}]}