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Patrick Sturt
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 100
Citations - 2952
Patrick Sturt is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sentence & Parsing. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 96 publications receiving 2668 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick Sturt include University of Glasgow.
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Depth of processing in language comprehension: not noticing the evidence
Anthony J. Sanford,Patrick Sturt +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence that similar underspecified representations are used by humans during comprehension is presented, and it is shown how linguistic properties of focus, subordination and focalization can control depth of processing, leading to underspecification representations.
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The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of binding theory in online sentence processing and found that the binding theory operates at the very earliest stages of processing; early eye-movement measures showed evidence of processing difficulty when the gender of the reflexive anaphor mismatched the stereotypical gender of a grammatical antecedent.
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Linguistic Focus and Good-Enough Representations: An Application of the Change-Detection Paradigm
TL;DR: In two experiments, a text-change paradigm was used to study depth of semantic processing during reading and provided evidence for the idea that representations are only good enough for the purpose at hand.
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Structural change and reanalysis difficulty in language comprehension
TL;DR: This article found that difficulty of reanalysis was not affected by the position of the head noun within the ambiguous phrase, and interpreted these results in terms of theories of structural change such as Sturt and Crocker (1996).
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Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations
TL;DR: This paper used reflexive binding and the gender mismatch paradigm to show that a complete and faithful syntactic structure is built following processing of the garden-path meaning from the first sentence interferes with reading of the second.