This paper considers how fluent language users are rational in their language processing,
their unconscious language representation systems optimally prepared for comprehension …

This article reviews research on how people use and understand linguistic expressions of
uncertainty, with a view toward the needs of researchers and others interested in artificial …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses that practical issues arise because weighty
decisions often depend on forecasts and opinions communicated from one person or set of …

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

Two auditory lexical decision experiments document for morphologically complex words two
points at which the probability of a target word given the evidence shifts dramatically. The …

The processing difficulty of each word we encounter in a sentence is affected by both our
prior linguistic experience and our general knowledge about the world. Computational …

The question of whether humans represent grammatical knowledge as a binary condition on
membership in a set of well‐formed sentences, or as a probabilistic property has been the …

A recent trend in psycholinguistic research has been to posit prediction as an essential
function of language processing. The present paper develops a linguistic perspective on …

Connectionist and dynamical systems approaches explain human thought, language and
behavior in terms of the emergent consequences of a large number of simple noncognitive …

Can what we know change what we see? Does language affect cognition and perception?
The last few years have seen increased attention to these seemingly disparate questions …