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Maryellen C. MacDonald
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 94
Citations - 8957
Maryellen C. MacDonald is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Language production. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 88 publications receiving 8296 citations. Previous affiliations of Maryellen C. MacDonald include University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign & University of Southern California.
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The lexical nature of syntactic ambiguity resolution
TL;DR: Reinterpreting syntactic ambiguity resolution as a form of lexical ambiguity resolution obviates the need for special parsing principles to account for syntactic interpretation preferences, and provides a more unified account of language comprehension than was previously available.
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Reassessing Working Memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996)
TL;DR: The authors argued that individual differences in language comprehension do not stem from variations in a separate working memory capacity; instead they emerge from an interaction of biological factors and language experience, and provided an alternative account motivated by a connectionist approach to language comprehension.
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Working memory constraints on the processing of syntactic ambiguity
TL;DR: A model that explains how the working-memory capacity of a comprehender can constrain syntactic parsing and thereby affect the processing of syntactic ambiguities is proposed.
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How language production shapes language form and comprehension.
TL;DR: The Production-Distribution-Comprehension account links work in the fields of language production, typology, and comprehension so that key aspects of comprehension behavior are tied to lexico-syntactic statistics in the language, which derive from utterance planning biases promoting production of comparatively easy utterance forms over more difficult ones.
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Probabilistic constraints and syntactic ambiguity resolution
TL;DR: Three different types of probabilistic constraints were investigated: “pre-ambiguity” plausibility information, information about verb argument structure frequencies, and “post-ambiguous” constraints that arrive after the introduction of the ambiguity but prior to its disambiguation.