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Rayner, Keith; Warren, Tessa; Juhasz, Barbara J.; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences describing events in which an individual performed an action with an implement. The noun phrase arguments of the verbs in the sentences were such that when thematic assignment occurred at the critical target word, the sentence was plausible (likely theme), implausible (unlikely theme),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Eye Movements, Measures (Individuals)