Since the early 2000s, several event-related potential studies have challenged the
assumption that we always use syntactic contextual information to influence semantic …

There is now considerable evidence that human sentence processing is expectation based:
As people read a sentence, they use their statistical experience with their language to …

Recently processed syntactic information is likely to play a fundamental role in online
sentence comprehension. For example, there is now a good deal of evidence that the …

Two visual world experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with
some using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball …

Speech unfolds swiftly, yet listeners keep pace by rapidly assigning meaning to what they
hear. Sometimes, though, initial interpretations turn out to be wrong. How do listeners revise …

Research on processing in English has shown that verb information facilitates predictive
processing. Because Japanese verbs occur at the ends of clauses, this information cannot …

Growing evidence suggests that syntactic processing may be guided in part by expectations
about the statistics of the input that comprehenders have encountered; however, these …

Meanings of basic expressions can be enriched by considering what the speaker could
have said, but chose not to, that is, the alternatives. We report three priming experiments that …

Humor plays an essential role in human interactions. Precisely what makes something
funny, however, remains elusive. While research on natural language understanding has …

Many influential models of sentence production (eg, Bock & Levelt, 1994; Kempen &
Hoenkamp, 1987; Levelt, 1989) emphasize the central role of verbs in structural encoding …