ABSTRACT
A great deal of experimental evidence supports the intuition that language comprehension takes place immediately and incrementally. For example, listeners can shadow speech (repeat auditory language input) with a latency of about 250 milliseconds [14]. Unambiguous words are often recognized before the spoken input is even complete [15]. Given this immediacy of comprehension combined with the many local indeterminacies in natural language, it is clear that at least partial commitments are being made to certain interpretations before completely disambiguating information is available.
The actress selected by flipping a coin.
The actress selected by the director quit.
