Abstract

The nature of grammatical constraints and of reading are compared in left and right embedded sentences. Given the task of completing sentences with various parts deleted, subjects most frequently insert relative phrases after the main verb and use a variety of constructions before the verb. In each of three experiments, the eye-voice spans are larger in the right branching sentences indicating that processing is directed by the nature of the constraints within sentences.

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