caa a22 4500 467938431 CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-006-9021-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-006-9021-z Argument Status and PP-Attachment [Elektronische Daten] [Julie Boland, Allison Blodgett] Prepositional phrase attachment was investigated in temporarily ambiguous sentences. Both attachment site (noun phrase or verb phrase) and argument status (argument or adjunct) were manipulated to test the hypothesis that arguments are processed differently than adjuncts. Contrary to this hypothesis, some previous research suggested that arguments and adjuncts are initially processed in the same manner, following a general bias to attach prepositional phrases to the verb phrase whenever possible [Clifton, Speer, & Abney (1991) Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 251-271]. The current study supports the hypothesis for differential processing, even during the initial stages of syntactic analysis. In an eye movement experiment, readers spent less first-pass time on argument prepositional phrases (PPs) than adjunct PPs. The results support a view in which a noun's or verb's argument structure can facilitate the analysis of its arguments. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Parsing nationallicence Sentence comprehension nationallicence Syntactic ambiguity nationallicence Prepositional phrase attachment nationallicence Boland Julie Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 E. University, 48109-1109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Blodgett Allison The Ohio State University, 43210-1174, Columbus, OH, USA aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 385-403 0090-6905 35:5<385 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boland Julie Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 E. University, 48109-1109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blodgett Allison The Ohio State University, 43210-1174, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 385-403 0090-6905 35:5<385 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer