Scope ambiguity resolution, event structure bias, and German main clause scrambling

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Our study exploits German main clause scrambling to investigate the role of the processor's expectations about event structure bias (lexical-pragmatic bias) in quantifier scope ambiguity resolution. Recent results suggest that event structure bias and shallow heuristic approaches precede structural reanalysis, which is only invoked in marginal circumstances. Older work (Kurtzman and MacDonald, 1993) dismisses a direct linear order scope preference. We use German scrambling to show that the processor must resist surface order in order to assert event structure bias.

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