Andromachi Tsoukala

• University of Cambridge

The present experimental studies shed light on effects of implicit prosodic cues on anaphora resolution as well as on how these differ both within and between L1 and L2 speaker groups. In two self-paced reading studies, L1 and L2 participants read poem-like texts that contained anaphoric ambiguity. These stimuli were designed to include a rhyming s...

Research in the 80’s and 90’s had demonstrated that comprehenders consider multiple types of information, inclusive of syntactic, nonsyntactic as well as nonlinguistic, when parsing and interpreting ambiguous linguistic structures. Over the past two decades, more recent accounts of sentence processing argue that comprehenders do not just incrementa...

Previous research focusing on direct object/subject garden path sentences, as in "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib", has provided evidence for the influence of multiple syntactic and non-syntactic factors on disambiguation. The present study sheds light on the role of a textual parameter that has received little attention in the liter...

Models that have been proposed to account for the organization of the production system are not in agreement as to whether semantic or phonological information is of primary importance for lemma selection in word production. While semanticosyntactic constraints and conceptual specification is prioritized by serial models, interactive or cascade mod...

Although various factors have been considered in syntactic ambiguity research, the influence of formal textual features remains largely unexplored. Poem stimuli were designed to test whether line breaks influence the availability of preceding hosts for RC adjunction. In an online pilot reading study, we considered presentation in 5-line poem format...