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 …

Computational psycholinguistics is concerned with the development of computational
models of the cognitive mechanisms and representations that underlie language processing …

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 …

Prior studies of ambiguity resolution in young children have found that children rely heavily
on lexical information but persistently fail to use referential constraints in online parsing …

Two experiments were conducted to examine the on-line processing mechanisms used by
young children to comprehend pronouns. The work focuses on their use of two highly …

We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated whether alternative syntactic
analyses compete during syntactic ambiguity resolution. Previous research (Traxler …

This article investigates the contextual components utilized to convey sarcastic verbal irony,
testing whether theoretical components deemed as necessary for creating a sense of irony …

This work presents an investigation of how prosodic information is used in natural language
processing and how prosody should be incorporated into models of sentence …

Understanding language requires readers and listeners to cull meaning from fast-unfolding
messages that often contain conflicting cues pointing to incompatible ways of interpreting …

A central issue in the study of sentence processing is the manner in which various sources
of information are used in resolving structural ambiguities. According to one proposal, the …