Three eye-tracking experiments investigated ambiguity resolution in sentences containing
adjunct modifiers. The experiments tested readers' response to sentences that began with a …

The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating
mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interference effects have provided …

A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

Acquire the tools for understanding new architectures and algorithms of dynamical recurrent
networks (DRNs) from this valuable field guide, which documents recent forays into artificial …

It must certainly be accounted a paradox that probabilistic modeling is simultaneously one of
the oldest and one of the newest areas in psycholinguistics. Much research in linguistics and …

The rational analysis method, first proposed by John R. Anderson, has been enormously
influential in helping us understand high-level cognitive processes. The Probabilistic Mind is …

Sentences with temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clauses (eg, The actress selected
by the director believed that…) were preceded by discourse contexts biasing a main clause …

Thematic roles are typically viewed as slot and filler m echanisms in which the slots are
devoid of content, or the content is limited to a few syntactically relevant features. This …

Thirty years of research has uncovered the broad principles that characterize spoken word
processing across listeners. However, there have been few systematic investigations of …

This article provides an overview of a probabilistic constraints framework for thinking about
language acquisition and processing. The generative approach attempts to characterize …