We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

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 …

The good-enough language processing approach emphasizes people's tendency to
generate superficial and even inaccurate interpretations of sentences. At the same time, a …

For more than a decade, views of sentence comprehension have been shifting toward wider
acceptance of a role for linguistic pre‐processing–that is, anticipation, expectancy,(neural) …

We present the case that language comprehension involves making simultaneous
predictions at different linguistic levels and that these predictions are generated by the …

Predictive processing is a critical component of language comprehension, but exactly how
and why comprehenders generate lexical predictions remains to be determined. Here, we …

Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

The study of processes underlying the interpretation of language often produces evidence
that they are complete and occur incrementally. However, computational linguistics has …

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 …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …