Are literal and nonliteral utterances processed differently or do they follow the same
comprehension routes? Relying on intuition, we might expect them to differ. Recent findings …

When participants follow spoken instructions to pick up and move objects in a visual
workspace, their eye movements to the objects are closely time-locked to referential …

Die Psycholinguistik soll zwei Zwecken dienen. Der Band präsentiert das Bild, das man sich
heute von den kognitiven Zuständen und Vorgängen des sprachlichen Wissens, des …

The most predominant language processing theories have, for some time, been based
largely on structured knowledge and relatively simple rules. These symbolic models …

Four experiments support the hypothesis that syntactically relevant information about verbs
is encoded in the lexicon in semantic event templates. A verb's event template represents …

English speakers' intuitions are strong that pronouns as sentence subjects may not precede
their referents (" She spoke after Susan…"). However, a pronoun in a subordinate clause …

In this chapter, a number of issues related to language comprehension are reviewed. The
chapter consists of four main section:(1) tasks and paradigms used to study language …

The three experiments in human sentence processing reported here were conducted in the
Algonquian language of Odawa. They represent the first psycholinguistic experiments to be …

Recent work in sentence processing has highlighted the distinction between serial and
parallel application of linguistic constraints in real time. In looking at context effects in …

We take as our point of departure Stevenson and Merlo's (1997) observation that the
differences in the processing difficulty of sentences with reduced relative clauses (RRs) are …