In parasitic-gap constructions an illicit gap inside a syntactic island becomes acceptable in
combination with an additional licit gap, a result that has interesting implications for theories …

Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that
are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption …

Grammatical constraints impose diverse requirements on the relations between words and
phrases in a sentence. Research on the online implementation of grammatical constraints …

Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-
based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate …

The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper …

Second-language (L2) sentence processing may differ from processing in a native language
in a variety of ways, and it has been argued that one major difference is that L2 learners can …

Scalar implicatures are inferences that arise when a weak expression is used instead of a
stronger alternative. For example, when a speaker says,“Some of the children are in the …

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Feature and conjunction searches have been argued to delineate parallel and serial
operations in visual processing. The authors evaluated this claim by examining the temporal …

Psycholinguistic investigations of reanalysis phenomena have typically focused on revisions
of phrase structure. Here, we identify a further subcomponent of syntactic reanalysis, namely …