Exploring the minimal structure in prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities: Evidence from Greek

Referential context effects in L2 ambiguity resolution: Evidence from self-paced reading

“…2 However, the observation of argument/modifier asymmetries in PP ambiguity resolution (e.g., Schütze and Gibson, 1999) suggests that the application of Minimal Attachment may be restricted (Frazier and Clifton, 1996) or that other grammatical constraints may be involved (see, e.g., Crocker, 1996;Phillips, 1996). Other factors that have been found to affect comprehenders' PP disambiguation preferences include the definiteness of the postverbal NP (Spivey-Knowlton and Sedivy, 1995) and the choice of preposition (Katsika, 2009).…”