Verb-Specific Constraints in Sentence Processing : Separating Effects of Lexical Preference From Garden-Paths
Immediate effects of verb-specific syntactic (subcategorization) information were found in across-modal naming experiment, a self-paced reading experiment, and an experiment in which eye
movements were monitored. In the reading studies, syntactic misanalysis effects in sentence
complements (e.g., "The student forgot the solution was. . .") occurred at the verb in the comple-
ment (e.g., was) for matrix verbs typically used with noun phrase complements but not for verbs
typically used with sentence complements. In addition, a complementizer effect for sentence-
complement-biased verbs was not due to syntactic misanalysis but was correlated with how
strongly a particular verb prefers to be followed by the complementizer that. The results support
models that make immediate use of lexically specific constraints, especially constraint-based
models, but are problematic for lexical filtering models.
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