How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

Addressees' eye movements were tracked as they followed instructions given by a
confederate speaker hidden from view. Experiment 1 used objects in common ground …

Function words, especially frequently occurring ones such as (the, that, and, and of), vary
widely in pronunciation. Understanding this variation is essential both for cognitive modeling …

It must certainly be accounted a paradox that probabilistic modeling is simultaneously one of
the oldest and one of the newest areas in psycholinguistics. Much research in linguistics and …

Two eye-movement experiments examined the processing of sentences containing reduced
relative constructions. In the first experiment, animacy of the sentential subject, structural …

Readers are sensitive to the fact that verbs may allow multiple subcategorization frames that
differ in their probability of occurrence. Although a verb's overall subcategorization …

A new explanation is proposed for a long standing question in psycholinguistics: Why are
some reduced relative clauses so difficult to comprehend? It is proposed that the meanings …

Three experiments investigated strategies readers use to process locally ambiguous
unbounded dependency constructions. Using self-paced reading, Experiments 1 and 2 …

We examined how explicit markers or" introductory formulae," which are used for signaling
that statements should be interpreted literally or nonliterally, influence the online processing …

We exploited the properties of VP-ellipsis constructions containing inherently reflexive and
inalienable possession verbs that severely constrained final interpretation (eg,“The …