Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers have made extensive use
of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of …

This paper contains an overview of language processing that can be described as “good
enough”,“underspecified”, or “shallow”. The central idea is that a nontrivial proportion of …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

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 …

To examine the relationship between syntactic processes in language comprehension and
language production, we compared structural persistence from sentence primes that …

Recent work has suggested that readers' initial and incorrect interpretation of temporarily
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences (eg, Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira …

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception …

Using a forced-choice question-answering paradigm, K. Christianson, A. Hollingworth, JF
Halliwell, and F. Ferreira (2001) showed that the original misinterpretation built during the …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating how native and
non-native speakers of English process temporarily ambiguous sentences such as While the …