Most current accounts of language comprehension agree on a role for prediction, but they
disagree on the importance of domain-general executive resources in predictive behavior. In …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

The study of how bilingualism is linked to cognitive processing, including executive
functioning, has historically focused on comparing bilinguals to monolinguals across a …

There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

In everyday communication, speakers make errors and produce language in a noisy
environment. Recent work suggests that comprehenders possess cognitive mechanisms for …

Recent evidence suggests that language processing is well-adapted to noise in the input
(eg, spelling or speech errors, misreading or mishearing) and that comprehenders readily …

For a long time, linguists more or less denied the existence of individual differences in
grammatical knowledge. While recent years have seen an explosion of research on …

As a method to ascertain person and item effects in psycholinguistics, a generalized linear
mixed effect model (GLMM) with crossed random effects has met limitations in handing …

Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain
types of messages. A speaker's choice of construction is known to depend on multiple …

Evidence is growing for the involvement of consolidation processes in the learning and
retention of language, largely based on instances of new linguistic components (eg, new …