When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

By common definition, emergence means “to come forth from concealment or
obscurity”(Webster's Dictionary). In the context of this book, emergence also implies “without …

This study provides evidence for implicit learning in syntactic comprehension. By
reanalyzing data from a syntactic priming experiment (Thothathiri & Snedeker, 2008), we …

This book brings together chapters from investigators on the leading edge on this new
research area to explore on the leading edge on this new research area to explore common …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than
object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented …

Crosslinguistic research is becoming increasingly popular in both linguistics and
psycholinguistics, especially since the advent of generative theories of language …

Linguistic theory in the generative tradition is based on a small number of simple but
important observations about human languages and how they are acquired. First, the …