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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="P84-1103"> <Title>AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN THE HUMAN SYNTACTIC PARSER: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY</Title> <Section position="4" start_page="483" end_page="483" type="metho"> <SectionTitle> (5b) COMPLEMENT-BIASING CONTEXT </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> A psychologist was counseling a married couple.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> One member of the pair was fighting with him but the other one was nice to him.</Paragraph> </Section> <Section position="5" start_page="483" end_page="483" type="metho"> <SectionTitle> (5c) RELATIVE SENTENCE </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> The psychologist told the wife that he was having trouble with to leave her husband.</Paragraph> </Section> <Section position="6" start_page="483" end_page="483" type="metho"> <SectionTitle> (5d) COMPLEMENT SENTENCE </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> The psychologist told the wife that he was having trouble with her husband.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> So, for example, (5c) preceded by (Sa) is processed smoothly, while (5c) preceded by (Sb) results in garden-pathing at the point of disambiguation (the word &quot;to&quot;). In the present experiment, sentences in which the &quot;that&quot;-clause was disambiguated immediately following the beginning of the clause (5e or 5f) were presented following the contexts of (5a) or (5b).</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="2"> (Se) RELATIVE SENTENCE The psychologist told the wife that was (yelling to shut up.)</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>