All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to the most
recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this arise in …

Three experiments investigated the use of verb argument structure by tracking participants'
eye movements across a set of related pictures as they listened to sentences. The …

Mathematical Models of Spoken Language presents the motivations for, intuitions behind,
and basic mathematical models of natural spoken language communication. A …

Language is not a module. Well, at least, it is not a feedforward encapsulated domain-
specific perceptual input system in the way that Fodor (1983) imagined. To be sure, there …

We adopt the visual-world eye-tracking paradigm to test the hypothesis that scalar
implicatures are integrated very locally to the utterance of scalar terms. Focusing on the …

The language-as-action and language-as-product traditions, as sketched in the preface to
this book, have each had their own characteristic theoretical concerns and preferred …

In characterizing work in language performance, Clark (1992) pointed out that the field has
been largely divided into two traditions. One tradition, the language-as-action tradition …

Helpers providing guidance for collaborative physical tasks shift their gaze between the
workspace, supply area, and instructions. Understanding when and why helpers gaze at …

Variations in speech melody (intonation) can be used to express different meanings (eg
question vs. statement, friendliness). Yet, intonational information is hardly used in present …

In the literature on formal semantics, there has been considerable discussion of the
influence of phonological stress on sentence interpretation (Jackendoff 1972; Rooth 1992 …