The goal of this chapter is to provide the foundation toward developing a more
comprehensive model of reading comprehension. To this end, seven prominent …

Although computational models of eye-movement control during reading have been used to
explain how saccadic programming, visual constraints, attention allocation, and lexical …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between
rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many …

Many explanations of the difficulties associated with interpreting object relative clauses
appeal to the demands that object relatives make on working memory. MacDonald and …

In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word
recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual …

The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating
mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interference effects have provided …

Six studies investigated the relationship between production and comprehension by
examining how relative clause production mechanisms influence the probabilistic …

An increasing number of results in sentence and discourse processing demonstrate that
comprehension relies on rich pragmatic knowledge about real-world events, and that …

Surprising as it may seem, sometimes humans like being led up the garden path, which is
thanks to the pleasurable feeling of surprise entwined with a humorous effect deception …