This article provides an overview of a probabilistic constraints framework for thinking about
language acquisition and processing. The generative approach attempts to characterize …

We suggest that the theory of dynamical systems provides a revealing general framework for
modeling the representations and mechanism underlying syntactic processing. We show …

One of the unwritten rules of psycholinguistics is that acquisition, comprehension, and
production research each keeps to itself—the questions addressed in these three fields, and …

The emphasis in the connectionist sentence-processing literature on distributed
representation and emergence of grammar from such systems can easily obscure the often …

The printed words you are reading now are the perceptible cornerstones of an otherwise
invisible grammatical edifice that is automatically reconstructed in your mind. According to …

Human sentence comprehension theories attempt to explain how people combine individual
word meanings to create the more complex meaning of a complete sentence. The intuitively …

The conventional view of natural language processing is based on mechanisms of discrete
automata, in which discrete states and transitions between states specify the temporal …

The syntactic constraints of a language strongly determine the interpretation that a reader or
listener arrives at for a sentence. Thus, the human language comprehension system must …

In this thesis, I report five eyetracking experiments that tested current sentence processing
theories. So far, most research has attempted to discriminate between various sentence …