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Published in final edited form as: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2011 Jul 4;64(9):1797–1820. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.582127

Table 1.

Synopsis of predictions of serial garden-path, parallel competitive, and unrestricted race models, for effects of verb ambiguity and its interaction with biasing context, assuming biasing context toward sentence complement analysis and disambiguation to simpler transitive analysis. “slowed” in Biasing context x ambiguity = reading time following ambiguous verb particularly slowed in biasing context.

Model	Region
Model	Ambiguous	Disambiguating
Garden-path model
Verb ambiguity	no effect	no effect
Biasing context x ambiguity	no effect	no effect
Parallel competition model
Verb ambiguity	slowed	slowed
Biasing context x ambiguity	slowed	slowed
Unrestricted race model
Verb ambiguity	no effect (or faster)	slowed
Biasing context x ambiguity	no effect	slowed