Verb aspect and the activation of event knowledge.

TR Ferretti, M Kutas, K McRae - Journal of Experimental …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Reanalysis in sentence processing: Evidence against current constraint-based and two-stage models

RPG Van Gompel, MJ Pickering, MJ Traxler - Journal of Memory and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Two eye-tracking experiments investigated processing of VP-NP attachment ambiguities.
Experiment 1 tested sentences in which there was an initial bias toward VP attachment …

Models of the reading process

K Rayner, ED Reichle - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Reading is a complex skill involving the orchestration of a number of components.
Researchers often talk about a 'model of reading'when talking about only one aspect of the …

Subject relative clauses are not universally easier to process: Evidence from Basque

M Carreiras, JA Duñabeitia, M Vergara… - Cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies from many languages consistently report that subject relative clauses (SR) are
easier to process than object relatives (OR). However, Hsiao and Gibson (2003) report an …

Separate streams or probabilistic inference? What the N400 can tell us about the comprehension of events

GR Kuperberg - Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Since the early 2000s, several event-related potential studies have challenged the
assumption that we always use syntactic contextual information to influence semantic …

Ambiguity resolution in sentence processing: Evidence against frequency-based accounts

MJ Pickering, MJ Traxler, MW Crocker - Journal of memory and language, 2000 - Elsevier
Three eye-tracking experiments investigated two frequency-based processing accounts: the
serial lexical-guidance account, in which people adopt the analysis compatible with the most …

[HTML][HTML] The scope of usage-based theory

P Ibbotson - Frontiers in psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Usage-based approaches typically draw on a relatively small set of cognitive processes,
such as categorization, analogy, and chunking to explain language structure and function …

Computational psycholinguistics

MW Crocker - The handbook of computational linguistics and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Computational psycholinguistics is concerned with the development of computational
models of the cognitive mechanisms and representations that underlie language processing …

Plausibility and recovery from garden paths in second language sentence processing

L Roberts, C Felser - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011 - cambridge.org
In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self …

Uncertainty and expectation in sentence processing: Evidence from subcategorization distributions

T Linzen, TF Jaeger - Cognitive science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is now considerable evidence that human sentence processing is expectation based:
As people read a sentence, they use their statistical experience with their language to …