An eye movement study of temporarily ambiguous closure sentences confirmed that the early closure penalty in a sentence like "While John hunted the frightened deer escaped" is larger for a simple past verb ("hunted") than for a past progressive verb ("was hunting"). The results can be explained by the observation that simple past tense verbs…

Responds to a commentary in this issue by Kempen on an experiment by Frazier and others involving Dutch-language lexical processing. Postulates that it is unclear control items were open to complex verbal analysis; more research is needed to determine how the verb "hebben" is interpreted in context; and Kempen's account of the results is…

Discusses a 1993 study by Frazier, d'Arcais, and Coolen intended to test Schreuder's (1990) Morphological Integration model concerning the processing of separable and inseparable verbs, and attempts to refute Kempen's objections to their interpretation of the experimental results in this issue. (DR)