Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John
Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the …

Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to
anticipate future words. Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary …

Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Using the eye-movement monitoring technique in two reading comprehension experiments,
this study investigated the timing of constraints on wh-dependencies (so-called island …

The present study investigated how children learn that some verbs may appear in the figure-
locative but not the ground-locative construction (eg, Lisa poured water into the cup;* Lisa …

We report three experiments investigating how people process anomalous sentences, in
particular those in which the anomaly is associated with the verb. We contrast two accounts …

The effects of word predictability and shared semantic similarity between a target word and
other words that could have taken its place in a sentence on language comprehension are …

Although sentences are thought to be generally easier to process when given information
precedes new information, closer examination reveals that these preferences only manifest …