Susan M. Garnsey

TL;DR: The authors used the self-paced moving-window reading paradigm to examine the contributions of both frequency-based verb biases and the plausibility of particular word combinations to the comprehension of temporarily ambiguous sentences.

TL;DR: This paper examined the processing of subject-verb agreement in sentence comprehension and found that agreement computations influenced processing within one word after encountering the verb, and processing disruptions occurred in response to both agreement violations and locally distracting number-marked nouns.

TL;DR: The authors found that readers use verb argument structure information to generate and evaluate likely syntactic alternatives and assign provisional interpretations using wh-questions, such as which client did the salesman visit while in the city? Using a word by word, self-paced reading task with a "makes sense" judgment, manipulated the plausibility of the whphrase with respect to the semantic role that it would play if it were the direct object.

TL;DR: This paper reported a case of pronunciation variation that reflects contextual probabilities of syntactic structures, and showed that these probabilities affect American English /t,d/- deletion, as well as the durations of words and phrases.

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of focusing phrases such as It was the... and There was this... on memory for the focused word and for particular types of information about it (phonological and semantic) and found that words were consistently better remembered when they had been focused.