Abstract
＂The horse raced past the barn fell＂ is a syntactically temporary ambiguous sentence because the verb ＂raced＂ can temporarily be analyzed as a main verb (MV) in a main clause or as a past participle in an embedded reduced relative clause (RRC). Using a sentence completion task, the present study found that Taiwanese learners of English, unlike native English speakers, could not effectively use referential contexts to process ambiguous noun/verb fragments, which mainly lead to MV/ RRC ambiguities. As a result, differences in RRC sentence completions between 1-NP-Referent contexts and 2-NP-Referent contexts took place for native speakers, but not for Taiwanese learners of English. The findings are discussed in terms of the discourse-based model.
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