It must certainly be accounted a paradox that probabilistic modeling is simultaneously one of
the oldest and one of the newest areas in psycholinguistics. Much research in linguistics and …

“Everyone knows that language is variable.” This is the bald sentence with which Sapir
(1921: 147) begins his chapter on language as an historical product. He goes on to …

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 …

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 …

For the past forty years, linguistics has been dominated by the idea that language is
categorical and linguistic competence discrete. It has become increasingly clear, however …

Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive
science questions of how humans structure, process and acquire language. This review …

Computational psycholinguistics is concerned with the development of computational
models of the cognitive mechanisms and representations that underlie language processing …

This chapter illustrates the use of probabilistic techniques in natural language pragmatics
and semantics with a concrete formal model. This model shows that a probabilistic …

Human language processing relies on many kinds of linguistic knowledge, and is sensitive
to their frequency, including lexical frequencies Ciyier, 1984; Salasoo & Pisoni, 1985; …

No apologies need be offered for the term psycholinguistics; it is not a newcomer, and it
explains itself. Elsewhere I have described psycholinguistics as specifically concerned with …