Although proximity between arguments and verbs (locality) is a relatively robust determinant
of sentence-processing difficulty (Hawkins 1998, 2001, Gibson 2000), increasing argument …

We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on" good-
enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (eg," While Anna dressed the baby …

The study reported here was conducted in the Algonquian language of Odawa (aka Ottawa),
with the goal of gaining new insight into the ways that conceptual accessibility affects human …

This dissertation explores the argument-typing system of Blackfoot, a Plains Algonquian
language spoken in Southern Alberta and Northwestern Montana. It develops a …

We report a replication and extension of Ferreira (2003), in which it was observed that native
adult English speakers misinterpret passive sentences that relate implausible but not …

Imagine a village where everyone" speaks" sign language. Just such a village--an isolated
Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness--is at the heart of …

In the verb-initial language Chamorro, an Austronesian language of the Mariana Islands,
WH-dependencies exhibit a special verbal inflection known as WH-AGREEMENT: verbs …

In recent psycholinguistic research, the effect of predictability in incremental processing has
become an important theoretical issue. Dependency locality theory (Gibson, 2000), for …

This study–one of the first “field psycholinguistics” studies conducted in an indigenous
language of North America–examined how native speakers of Odawa (Ottawa) interpret pro …

Obviation is a hallmark trait of Algonquian, but how does it fit in a typology of natural
language phenomenon? Analyses tend to focus on either its discourse or syntactic …