Two studies investigated the interaction between utterance and scene processing by
monitoring eye movements in agent–action–patient events, while participants listened to …

Six studies investigated the relationship between production and comprehension by
examining how relative clause production mechanisms influence the probabilistic …

Die Psycholinguistik soll zwei Zwecken dienen. Der Band präsentiert das Bild, das man sich
heute von den kognitiven Zuständen und Vorgängen des sprachlichen Wissens, des …

Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward
progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of …

Two eye-movement experiments examined the processing of sentences containing reduced
relative constructions. In the first experiment, animacy of the sentential subject, structural …

Speakers in conversation routinely engage in audience design. That is, they construct their
utterances to be understood by particular addressees. Standard accounts of audience …

Humans have the capacity to draw common-sense inferences from natural language:
various things that are likely but not certain to hold based on established discourse, and are …

An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that
comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that …

In some theories of sentence comprehension, linguistically relevant lexical knowledge, such
as selectional restrictions, is privileged in terms of the time-course of its access and …

The authors show that verb aspect influences the activation of event knowledge with 4 novel
results. First, common locations of events (eg, arena) are primed following verbs with …