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Processing complex sentences involving complement coercion, where nouns act as event complements, incurs cognitive costs. This study shows the cost stems from constructing an event sense, not from choosing between interpretations.

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Background:

Complement coercion involves event-selecting verbs with non-event noun phrase complements, posing processing challenges.
Previous research indicates these constructions are more difficult than standard compositional phrases.
The cost is theorized to arise from the need to infer an event sense for the complement.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the source of processing costs in complement coercion.
To differentiate between costs arising from interpretation selection versus event sense construction.
To test hypotheses regarding constrained versus weakly constrained interpretations.

Main Methods:

An eye-movement experiment was conducted to measure processing costs.
Participants read sentences with complement coercion structures.
Comprehension difficulty was assessed by analyzing reading times and fixation patterns.

Main Results:

Sentences with weakly constrained interpretations were not more costly than those with strongly constrained interpretations.
Processing costs did not correlate with the number of available interpretations.
These findings challenge the competition-based explanation for processing difficulty.

Conclusions:

The results support the hypothesis that processing costs in complement coercion are due to the on-line construction of an event sense for the complement.
This construction is necessary to meet the semantic requirements of event-selecting verbs.
The findings contribute to understanding semantic composition and cognitive processing of language.