How to sneeze a napkin off the table: Understanding grammatically creative, coerced sentences in real time.
Abstract
= 55), using eye-movement recordings, showed that the processing difficulty in coerced sentences was more successfully resolved than in fully anomalous controls, and that this resolution occurred both at temporally early and later stages of processing. Our results demonstrate that verb argument structure composition is flexible and computed during real-time incremental sentence comprehension. Comprehenders understand creative verb-argument combinations by rapidly integrating information from the verb and its clausal context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Syntax
Semantics
Linguistic Variation
Language Development and Disorders
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1903–1927
- Publication date
- 15 January 2026
- Language
- EN