Theories of sentence processing can be classified by the role that lexical heads play in first-
pass parsing. In some theories, syntactic structure cannot even be built before it is licensed …

A strongly principle-based model of parsing seeks to employ principles of the competence
grammar directly in language processing. Within grammatical theory, the Projection …

One central question in sentence processing concerns the relationship between knowledge
of language and the way this knowledge is put to use. This relationship between …

Two experiments on the processing of Dutch were conducted to test the cross language
validity of a model of human sentence processing developed on the basis of English. The …

The present paper provides evidence that the processing of verb final clauses proceeds
incrementally based on local information that becomes available with each word. The results …

The process of sentence parsing is clearly influenced by the detailed information recovered
from the lexicon for each successive word that appears in the sentence. This information …

The general foundations for a theory of human sentence processing and the basic goals and
questions of the 1960s are argued to be solid and still very relevant today, even if the …

Psycholinguistic models of language processing usually postulate that parsing the syntactic
structure of a sen-tence proceeds incrementally in some way, which means that the syntactic …

The parsing principle of minimal attachment predicts that a noun phrase occurring after
verbs such as “report” or “indicate” will first be assumed by readers to be the direct object of …

The German language, due to its verb-final nature, relatively free order of constituents and
morphological Case system, poses challenges for models of human syntactic processing …