Syntactic processes are an important component of the language processing system. While semantic and pragmatic information has been shown to influence the eventual interpretation of an utterance, psycholinguistic theories have not come to an agreement on how this information is combined with syntactic knowledge during the initial parsing process. This paper reviews recent psycholinguistic research on the effects of lexical information and discourse context on syntactic processing. The results of these studies are often contradictory, and do not allow to draw firm conclusions on how syntactic and non-syntactic processes interact. Nevertheless, it is suggested that the psychological evidence points towards a weakly interactive, parallel model of parsing. Methodological implications and further research directions are discussed, and an evaluation of text comprehension theories
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