“…Prior research on children's sentence processing suggests that comprehension in children may be more modular or dependant on bottom-up information than comprehension in adults (Traxler, 2002;Joseph, Liversedge, Blythe, White, Gathercole, & Rayner, 2008;Trueswell, Sekerina, Hill, & Logrip, 1999;Snedeker & Trueswell, 2004;Mazzocco, 1997;Doherty, 2004;Huang & Snedeker, in press). This is precisely the pattern we would expect if children were less incremental, resolving ambiguity at lower levels before passing information on to higher ones.…”