Ambiguity Resolution in English Language Processing

Language ambiguity resolution has been widely studied by psycholinguists.Studies of lexical ambiguity resolution,syntactic ambiguity resolution and anaphoric ambiguity resolution have showed different results.One account assumes that ambiguity resolution involvescompetitionof analysis which causes processing difficulties.The other account claims that an initial analysis is adopt andreanalysisoccurs when the initial analysis turns out to be implausible.