Context-predicting models (more commonly known as embeddings or neural language
models) are the new kids on the distributional semantics block. Despite the buzz …

This paper introduces a special issue of Cognitive Science initiated on the 25th anniversary
of the publication of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), a two‐volume work that …

A visual world experiment examined the time course for pragmatic inferences derived from
visual context and contrastive intonation contours. We used the construction It looks like an …

Syntactic priming occurs when structural information from one sentence influences
processing of a subsequently encountered sentence (Bock, 1986; Ledoux et al., 2007). This …

Rumelhart and McClelland's chapter about learning the past tense created a degree of
controversy extraordinary even in the adversarial culture of modern science. It also …

This study investigated whether or not the temporal information encoded in aspectual
morphemes can be used immediately by young children to facilitate event recognition during …

Syntactic priming without lexical overlap is well-documented in language production. In
contrast, reading-time comprehension studies, which typically use locally ambiguous …

Purpose The authors examined speech perception deficits associated with individual
differences in language ability, contrasting auditory, phonological, or lexical accounts by …

Following the Sixth International Workshop on Language Production (Edinburgh, UK, Sept.,
2010), this special issue presents a collection of contributions concerned with a wide range …

This paper investigates the comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese, where
noun phrases are head-final and both an object-relative advantage and a subject-relative …