This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most
recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in …

A major issue in understanding how language is implemented in the brain involves
understanding the use of language in language comprehension and production. However …

Gibson's Dependency Locality Theory (DLT)[Gibson, E. 1998. Linguistic complexity: locality
of syntactic dependencies. Cognition, 68, 1–76; Gibson, E. 2000. The dependency locality …

Reaction time and speed-accuracy trade-off procedures were used to examine when
different linguistic constraints were operative in processing sentences with filler-gap …

We evaluate the predictions of two theories of syntactic processing complexity, dependency
locality theory (DLT) and surprisal, against the Dundee Corpus, which contains the eye …

This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that
object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject …

At least some psycholinguists exploring how sentences are structured in linguistic behavior
have concluded that the\performance structures" that emerge from experimental data di er …

Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the
comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three …

In recent work on sentence processing, lexical frequencies have been proposed as a
primary mechanism for syntactic and lexical disambiguation. In this paper, we instead focus …