The authors argue that a more complete understanding of how people produce and
comprehend language will require investigating real-time spoken-language processing in …

We used the contrastive expectation associated with scalar adjectives to examine whether
listeners are sensitive to the distinction between common and privileged information during …

Two experiments examined the restriction of referential domains during unscripted
conversation by analyzing the modification and online interpretation of referring …

Two experiments examined the role of common ground in the production and on-line
interpretation of wh-questions such as What's above the cow with shoes? Experiment 1 …

Research with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are resolved efficiently,
exploiting multiple cues—including referential context—to select the intended meaning …

Recent studies have shown that listeners use verbs and other predicate terms to anticipate
reference to semantic entities during real-time language comprehension. This process …

While shared visual space plays a very important role in remote collaboration on physical
tasks, it is challenging and expensive to track users' focus of attention (FOA) during these …

While driving in England recently, the second author was listening to a play on the radio. A
Roman senator was telling another how Cicero had insulted him in court. In moments like …

A common way to describe the location of an object is to spatially relate it to a nearby object.
For such descriptions, the object being described is referred to as the located object; the …

Advances in sensing and networking hardware have made the prospect of ambient
intelligence more realistic, but the challenge of creating a software framework suitable for …