A great deal of psycholinguistic research has focused on the question of how adults interpret
language in real time. This work has revealed a complex and interactive language …

Research with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are resolved efficiently,
exploiting multiple cues—including referential context—to select the intended meaning …

Individual differences in children's online language processing were explored by monitoring
their eye movements to objects in a visual scene as they listened to spoken sentences …

This chapter will present three widely used on-line sentence processing tasks (word
monitoring, self-paced reading/listening, cross-modal priming) and one new task (self-paced …

Many comprehension studies of grammatical development have focused on the ultimate
interpretation that children assign to sentences and phrases, yielding somewhat static …

The development of the processes involved in the word-by-word comprehension of spoken
language was investigated in an experiment in which 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old children …

An eye-tracking study explored Korean-speaking adults' and 4-and 5-year-olds' ability to
recover from misinterpretations of temporarily ambiguous phrases during spoken language …

Two striking contrasts currently exist in the sentence processing literature. First, whereas
adult readers rely heavily on lexical information in the generation of syntactic alternatives …

Sentence comprehension by children between 2 and 5 years of age was examined in the
first of 2 studies. 3-year-olds consistently applied extra-syntactic strategies resulting in many …

Since Saussure, the relationship between the sound and the meaning of words has been
regarded as largely arbitrary. Here, however, we show that a probabilistic relationship exists …