Prediction is often regarded as an integral aspect of incremental language comprehension,
but little is known about the cognitive architectures and mechanisms that support it. We …

Word recognition occurs across two sensory modalities: auditory (spoken words) and visual
(written words). While each faces different challenges, they are often described in similar …

Purpose: There is a long-standing debate about how written words are recognized. Central
to this debate is the role of phonology. The objective of this study is to contribute to our …

Resource limitation has often been invoked as a key driver of sentence comprehension
difficulty, in both theories of language-unimpaired and language-impaired populations. In …

Prior research suggests that the development of speech perception and word recognition
stabilises in early childhood. However, recent work suggests that development of these …

Introduction An organized mental lexicon determines new information acquisition by
orienting attention during language processing. Adult-like lexical-semantic knowledge …

Human word learning is remarkable: We not only learn thousands of words but also form
organized semantic networks in which words are interconnected according to meaningful …

In this commentary, we suggest that infancy researchers should carefully consider validity
when taking steps to improve reliability. Zooming in to focus on looking‐time methods, we …

Encountering idioms (hit the sack=“go to bed”) in a second language (L2) often results in a
literal-first understanding (“literally hit a sack”). The figurative meaning is retrieved later …

Resource limitation has often been invoked as a key driver of sentence comprehension
difficulty, in both theories of language-unimpaired and language-impaired populations. In …