Many comprehension studies of grammatical development have focused on the ultimate
interpretation that children assign to sentences and phrases, yielding somewhat static …

We asked whether children's well-known difficulties revising initial sentence processing
commitments characterize the immature or the learning parser. Adult L2 speakers of English …

A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the
world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in …

Although several theories of online syntactic processing assume the parallel activation of
multiple syntactic representations, evidence supporting simultaneous activation has been …

Thematic role assignment–generally, figuring out who did what to whom–is a critical
component of sentence comprehension, which is influenced by both syntactic and semantic …

Research with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are resolved efficiently,
exploiting multiple cues—including referential context—to select the intended meaning …

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The major purpose of this study was to test how preliterate learners use illustrations in
storybooks to understand a story. Subjects were 23 five-year-old low-SES children, learning …

9 In this brief review of the research fields and practical 10 applications of eye movement
technology, we will begin 11 by considering studies of the relationship between eye 12 …

In 2 separate self-paced reading experiments, Farmer, Christiansen, and Monaghan (2006)
found that the degree to which a word's phonology is typical of other words in its lexical …