Ambiguity In Literature

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There was no interaction effect observed between structural priming and regions on reading time, F1 (2, 22) = 0.63, ns, η2p = .054; F2 (2, 48) = 1.57, ns, η2p = .061. Reading times were not significantly different at the target word between relevant and irrelevant structural primes, t (24) = 1.62, ns. Reading times were not significantly different at the word immediately after the ambiguous word, t (24) = 0.34, ns. Reading times were not significantly different at the second word following the ambiguous word, t (24) = 0.96, ns.

Discussion The current research aimed to understand how ambiguity is processed and whether it can be influenced by what is read before it. Mean accuracy was shown to be 86% which indicated that participants were reading

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