Dr Roger van Gompel Dr Roger van Gompel Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN Scotland. An important part of his work on syntactic ambiguity resolution addresses the question of whether a process of reanalysis or competition causes the sentence processor to disrupt. To account for the results, Van Gompel and colleagues have proposed an alternative model of syntactic ambiguity resolution, the unrestricted race model. This model employs reanalysis. Roger van Gompel s work on discourse processing involves the study of anaphoric relations.
Current experiments investigate how anaphors reactivate their antecedents.
The results suggest that frequency information has to be reactivated when the anaphor is a noun phrase, but not when it is a pronoun. This research is still in progress. The influence of morphological information on cataphoric pronoun assignment. Manuscript in preparation. Manuscript in resubmission to Journal of Memory and Language .