24, 113–128 (2023)) 1. According to the authors, comprehension requires the formation of
hierarchically organized non-adjacent dependencies between words or morphemes that …

Predictive processing has been considered an important part of language processing and
coined as a mechanism underlying language learning. This chapter reviews theoretical …

A recent trend in psycholinguistic research has been to posit prediction as an essential
function of language processing. The present paper develops a linguistic perspective on …

Metaphor is crucial in human cognition and creativity, facilitating abstract thinking,
analogical reasoning, and idea generation. Typically, human raters manually score the …

People sometimes interpret implausible sentences nonliterally, for example treating The
mother gave the candle the daughter as meaning the daughter receiving the candle. But …

Prediction is one characteristic of the human mind. But what does it mean to say the mind is
a “prediction machine” and inherently forward looking as is frequently claimed? In natural …

The capacity for language is a defining property of our species, yet despite decades of
research, evidence on its neural basis is still mixed and a generalized consensus is difficult …

Auditory sentence comprehension involves processing content (semantics), grammar
(syntax), and intonation (prosody). The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) is involved in sentence …

This research presents a new theoretical framework through assessing readability research
based on the linguistics and communication perspectives to determine the obfuscation …

An important debate on the architecture of the language faculty has been the extent to which
it relies on a compositional system that constructs larger units from morphemes to words to …