Abstract
This study explored the effects of extralinguistic context on how people process sentences which describe transitive relations between two items. The Ss were given two different tasks; they either had to move both items to make the described arrangement, or they had to move either one of the two items with respect to the other. The former type of task was harder. The hypothesis proposed to account for the results is that Ss initially process these sentences to determine the role of the grammatical subject in the described relation, an analysis which does not explicitly specify the role of the grammatical object. The role of the grammatical object, we suggested, is only determined explicitly when the task requires it.
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