The Subject Preference in the Processing of Locally Ambiguous WH-Questions in German

The processing of locally ambiguous wh-phrases has received much attention in the last years, and experimental results reported in the literature converge in at least one respect: if a clause-initial NP is locally ambiguous between a subject and an object interpretation, the human parser strongly prefers the former reading. The present chapter constitutes no exception to this general picture.

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