Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution In German

Abstract

This chapter discusses sentence processing research from differential perspective and from universal perspective. It argues the ways in which the peculiarities of German give the opportunity to provide a new test ground for theories of sentence processing in general. The chapter explains evidence on constructions which are highly comparable, not only in German and English, but also many other languages. It discusses constraints on models of human sentence processing in general which can be derived from experiments on German. The chapter talks about attachment preferences and the principle of parameterized head attachment based on experiments on PP- and NP attachment as well as extensions of the models which have proven to be necessary to explain relative clause attachment preferences.

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