@article{LCNL:8,
	author={Robert Thornton and Maryellen C. MacDonald and Jeniffer E. Arnold},
	year={2000},
	title={The concomitant effects of phrase length and informational content in sentence comprehension.},
	journal={Journal of Psycholinguistic Research},
	volume={29},
	pages={195-203},
	abstract={Recent evidence suggests that phrase length plays a crucial role in modification ambiguities. Using a self-paced reading task with 64 college students, these results were extended by examining the additional pragmatic effects that length manipulations may exert. The construction used was the mixed-phase modification ambiguity, which consists of a verb phrase (VP), followed by an noun phrase (NP), and a pronoun phrase (PP) which could modify the VP (distant site) or the NP (local site). The results demonstrate that length not only modulates modification preferences directly, but that it also necessarily changes the informational content of a sentence, which itself affects modification preferences. These findings suggest that the same length manipulation affects multiple sources of constraints, both structural and pragmatic, which can each exert differing effects on processing.},
	language={English},
	URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/8.pdf},
}