Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Children as old as 5 or 6 years display selective difficulties in revising initial interpretive
commitments, as indicated by both online and offline measures of sentence comprehension …

Language processing research is changing in two ways that should make it more relevant to
the study of grammatical learning. First, grammatical phenomena are re-entering the …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

A long-standing question in sentence processing research concerns the online parsing
process in clause-boundary garden-path sentences, such as After Mary dressed John …

Much work has demonstrated that speakers of verb-final languages are able to construct rich
syntactic representations in advance of verb information. This may reflect general …

Research on temporarily ambiguous “garden-path” sentences (eg, After Mary dressed the
baby laughed) has shown that initially assigned misinterpretations linger after reanalysis of …

Studies examining age of onset (AoO) effects in childhood bilingualism have provided mixed
results as to whether early sequential bilingual children (eL2) differ from simultaneous …

Differences in caregiver input across socioeconomic status (SES) predict syntactic
development, but the mechanisms are not well understood. Input effects may reflect the …