The listener can be thought of as a device for conversion of acoustic input into meaning. The
purpose of this chapter is to provide an outline, necessarily superficial but we hope not …

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

This article examined whether semantic indeterminacy plays a role in comprehension of
complex structures such as object relative clauses. Study 1 used a gated sentence …

This monograph presents evidence from an interrelated set of experiments designed to
investigate aspects of sentence processing comparing bilinguals and monolinguals, testing …

A dynamical systems approach to parsing is proposed in which syntactic hypotheses are
associated with attractors in a metric space. These attractors have many of the properties of …

The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper …

Syntactic priming during language production is pervasive and well-studied. Hearing,
reading, speaking or writing a sentence with a given structure increases the probability of …

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

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 …

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 …