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

Certain models of spoken-language processing, like those for many other perceptual and
cognitive processes, posit continuous uptake of sensory input and dynamic competition …

Publisher Summary The two most robust findings in studies of eye movements and reading
are that (1) fixation time on a word is shorter if the reader has a valid preview of the word …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

Young children's communication has often been characterized as egocentric. Some
researchers claim that the processing of language involves an initial stage that relies on …

Although computational models of eye-movement control during reading have been used to
explain how saccadic programming, visual constraints, attention allocation, and lexical …

All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most
recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in …

We report two experiments which examined the role of binding theory in on-line sentence
processing. Participants' eye movements were recorded while they read short texts which …

Addressees' eye movements were tracked as they followed instructions given by a
confederate speaker hidden from view. Experiment 1 used objects in common ground …

Two striking contrasts currently exist in the sentence processing literature. First, whereas
adult readers rely heavily on lexical information in the generation of syntactic alternatives …