Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the speed and accuracy of accessing
representations of recently processed information. It documents the types of retrieval …

We address two important questions about the relationship between theoretical linguistics
and psycholinguistics. First, do grammatical theories and language processing models …

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively.
Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered …

The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a
language, and yet little is known about how language learners comprehend or produce …

Competence-based theories of island effects play a central role in generative grammar, yet
the graded nature of many syntactic islands has never been properly accounted for …

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 …

Measures of the speed and accuracy of processing sentences with nonadjacent
dependencies derived from the response-signal speed-accuracy tradeoff procedure were …

Measures of retrieval speed indicated that only a small subset of representations in working
memory falls within the focus of attention. An n-back task, which required tracking an item 1 …

To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Studies of working memory demonstrate that some forms of information are retrieved by a
content-addressable mechanism (McElree & Dosher, 1989; McElree, 1996, 1998), whereas …