2.1 BACKGROUND Within the community of researchers interested in understanding how
humans process sentences, it has long been evident that there are important insights to be …

You know the kind of nightmare that's so realistic that when you wake up the next morning
you're not sure whether it was a dream or not? The events in the dream get incorporated into …

Language has been studied in many ways. It has been examined as an art, as a basis of
philosophical investigations, and as a way of gaining insight into the human mind. During …

This chapter will present three widely used on-line sentence processing tasks (word
monitoring, self-paced reading/listening, cross-modal priming) and one new task (self-paced …

1 Introduction Language comprehension is a complex task that involves constructing an
incremental interpretation of a rapid sequence of incom-ing words before they fade from …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

The time-course with which readers use event-specific world knowledge (thematic fit) to
resolve structural ambiguity was explored through experiments and implementation of …

Since the publication of Clahsen and Felser's (2006) keynote article on grammatical
processing in language learners, the online study of sentence comprehension in adult …

Online sentence comprehension involves multiple types of cognitive processes: lexical
processes such as lexical access, which call on the user's knowledge of the meaning of …

This paper presents three studies which examine the susceptibility of sentence
comprehension to intrusion by extra-sentential probe words in two on-line dual-task …