The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

It is well known that familiar words inhibit each other during spoken word recognition.
However, we do not know how and under what circumstances newly learned words become …

Spatial terms such as “above”,“in front of”, and “on the left of” are all essential for describing
the location of one object relative to another object in everyday communication …

What is conveyed by a sentence frequently depends not only on the descriptive content
carried by its words, but also on implicit alternatives determined by the context of use. Four …

We report three experiments on French that explore number mismatch effects in intervention
configurations in the comprehension of object A'-dependencies, relative clauses and …

Interpreting other peoples' actions relies on an understanding of their current mental states
(eg beliefs, desires and intentions). In this paper, we distinguish between listeners' ability to …

Psycholinguistic research using the visual world paradigm has shown that the processing of
sentences is constrained by the visual context in which they occur. Recently, there has been …

It is widely assumed that focused entities are more salient than non-focused ones and
consequently, that an antecedent should be particularly available for a pronoun when it is …

Most first books originate from experience of teaching. The idea of this book probably
originated when I started examining the interaction of language and vision few years ago at …

Two visual-world experiments investigated whether and how quickly discourse-based
expectations about the prosodic realisation of spoken words modulate interpretation of …