... ex-plained in terms of verbal working memory (King and Just, 1991), distance between the gap and the filler (Bever and McElree, 1988), or perspectiveshifting (MacWhinney, 1982). However, the testresults ... disambiguating regions will predict the trends in the reading time data. All other things be-ing equal, we might expect a reading time penaltywhen the size of the probability decrease at the disambiguating ... studies; another that measures prob-ability drop in the disambiguating region of the sentence. Both are surprisinglygood indicators of the processing difficulty of garden-path sentences. The sentencestested...