Yao-Ying Lai

ORCID iD
ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0003-2194-0707

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yao-Ying Lai plays a role.

Article

Cover not available
Lai, Yao-Ying, David Braze and Maria Mercedes Piñango 2023 The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: An eye-movement study The Mental Lexicon 18:1, pp. 41–93 | Article
Sentences like (1) “The singer began the album” are ambiguous between an agentive reading (The singer began recording/playing/etc. the album) and a constitutive reading (The singer’s song was the first track). The ambiguity is rooted in the meaning specification of the aspectual-verb class,… read more