How children (and adults) juggle multiple interpretations during sentence processing?
Because ambiguity is a fundamental property of the human language, children need to develop the ability to resolve ambiguities online in order to efficiently understand spoken language and to acquire the meanings of words. However, very little is understood about the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of ambiguous words during sentence comprehension in children. In this project, we will study how children and adults constrain their interpretation of word meanings in situations requiring them to evaluate multiple possible interpretations for a word.