Against a background of recent progress in developmental neuroscience, some of which
has been taken as challenging to the modularity hypothesis of, this article contrasts two …

The Gricean Maxim of Quantity is believed to govern linguistic performance. Speakers are
assumed to provide as much information as required for referent identification and no more …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 32 (2) of Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2007-16796-001) …

Two studies investigated the interaction between utterance and scene processing by
monitoring eye movements in agent–action–patient events, while participants listened to …

Many authors have argued that word-learning constraints help guide a word-learner's
hypotheses as to the meaning of a newly heard word. One such class of constraints derives …

High above the clouds of California, I feel an acute sense of loss. Yesterday I walked
through golden hills. The last five years have been full of experiences that I wouldn't have …

Semantic accounts of the definite article have tended to fall into two general
classes:'uniqueness' accounts (Russell, 1905), and 'familiarity'accounts (Heim, 1982; see …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

Publisher Summary Eye movements have become a widely used response measure for
studying spoken language processing in both adults and children, in situations where …

In the early 1980s, sentence comprehension deficits were attributed to a loss of syntactic
knowledge in agrammatic Broca's aphasics and to a short-term memory deficit in conduction …