Previous research suggests that language comprehenders are sensitive to the presence of
focus-sensitive particles—words like only and not that are effective at marking the focus of …

Psycholinguistic studies of focus processing have yielded varying results regarding how
focus affects language processing. We report the results of an event-related potential (ERP) …

Three experiments explored whether patterns of eye movements during reading might help
explain syntactic prominence effects that are typically observed using reaction time tasks …

Three eye movement experiments investigated focus identification during sentence
comprehension. Participants read dative or double-object sentences (ie, either the direct or …

Investigations of linguistic focus in reading have found mixed results. Some report a
decrease in reading times on focused material [9, 4], while others report an increase [3, 2, 8 …

Three eye movement experiments investigated the interaction between contextual and
lexical focus cues during reading. Context was used to focus on either the indirect or direct …

Readers progressed through a sentence in the Maze task (Forster et al., 2009), deciding at
each word between a sensical and a non-sensical continuation. Contexts presented before …

Predictive processing is a critical component of language comprehension, but exactly how
and why comprehenders generate lexical predictions remains to be determined. Here, we …

Evidence suggests that the language processing system is predictive. Although past
research has established prediction as a general tendency, it is not yet clear whether …

Previous research has demonstrated that the ease or difficulty of processing complex
semantic expressions depends on sentence structure: Processing difficulty emerges when …