What is the nature of the knowledge that readers acquire as they learn to comprehend a
novel construction in their native language? This question was explored in two experiments …

When faced with the noun phrase (NP) versus sentence (S) coordination ambiguity as in, for
example, The thief shot the jeweller and the cop…, readers prefer the reading with NP …

This dissertation investigates the role of grammar and parsing in processing relative clauses
across languages. A parsing theory called the Incremental Minimalist Parser (IMP), which …

This article deals with gradience in human sentence processing. We review the
experimental evidence for the role of experience in guiding the decisions of the sentence …

Previous psycholinguistic research has debated the nature of the mental representation of
verbs and the access of relevant verb information in sentence processing. In this study, we …

本文以Bates & MacWhinney (1989) 的句子理解竞争模型为理论基础, 考察不同英语水平的英,
汉双语者在理解汉语和英语句子时如何使用词序和生命性这两条线索. 实验结果表明: 对于英 …

We present a model of human sentence processing that extends a standard probabilistic
grammar model with a semantic module which computes the thematic fit of verbs and …

We present the psycholinguistically motivated task of predicting human plausibility
judgements for verb-role-argument triples and introduce a probabilistic model that solves it …

We examined how people use their knowledge of events to recover thematic role structure
during the interpretation of noun-noun phrases. All phrases included one noun that was a …

When faced with the NP-versus S-coordination ambiguity as in, for example, The thief shot
the jeweler and the cop..., readers prefer the reading with NP-coordination (eg," The thief …