Estrategias de análisis sintáctico en el procesamiento de frases: cierre temprano versus cierre tardío

One questionnaire study and four on-line readingexperiments were carried out in onder to test whether a parsing strategy (late closure venus early closure) was influenced by the content of the sentence and the punctuation. The results of the questionnaire study showed that early closure was mainly chosen, but also that the content of the sentence and the punctuation influenced those choices. The on-line experiments demonstrated that early closure choices were made while subjects were actually reading the sentence, however the content of the sentence and the punctuation affected the interpretation of the sentence afterwands.