We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Measuring where the eyes fixate, and for how long, has arguably been the most valuable
way of exploring the time-course of comprehending written sentences. This chapter reviews …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

In some theories of sentence comprehension, linguistically relevant lexical knowledge, such
as selectional restrictions, is privileged in terms of the time-course of its access and …

In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self …

Several studies have demonstrated that as listeners hear sentences describing events in a
scene, their eye movements anticipate upcoming linguistic items predicted by the unfolding …

We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations
influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses …

Abstract Language use in conversation is fundamentally incremental, and is guided by the
representations that interlocutors maintain of each other's knowledge and beliefs. While …

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 …