The distinction between “pure” and “applied” sciences is an old one. According to Meinel
(2000), it was introduced by the Swedish chemist Wallerius in 1751, as part of the dispute of …

Probabilistic pragmatics aspires to explain certain regularities of language use and
interpretation as behavior of speakers and listeners who want to satisfy their conversational …

Empirical evidence demonstrating that sentence meaning is rapidly reconciled with the
visual environment has been broadly construed as supporting the seamless interaction of …

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

This article examines cognitive process models of human sentence comprehension based
on the idea of informed search. These models are rational in the sense that they strive to find …

In contrast to traditional approaches of mainstream psycholinguists, the authors of
Communicating with One Another approach spontaneous spoken discourse as a dynamic …

Experimental research shows that human sentence processing uses information from
different levels of linguistic analysis, for example, lexical and syntactic preferences as well …

Evidence from numerous studies using the visual world paradigm has revealed both that
spoken language can rapidly guide attention in a related visual scene and that scene …

Questions are asked and answered every day. Question answering (QA) technology aims to
deliver the same facility online. It goes further than the more familiar search based on …

This article deals with gradience in human sentence processing. We review the
experimental evidence for the role of experience in guiding the decisions of the sentence …