Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Over the last 25 years, the visual world paradigm has enabled discoveries and theoretical
advances in spoken language processing. However, the intuitive interpretation of fixations in …

Predicting variability in context effects is a timely enterprise considering that psycho-and
neurolinguistic research has assessed how language processing depends on the perceived …

The processing difficulty of each word we encounter in a sentence is affected by both our
prior linguistic experience and our general knowledge about the world. Computational …

Our knowledge of events and situations in the world plays a critical role in our ability to
understand what is happening around us, to predict what might happen next, and to …

Processing language requires integrating information from multiple sources, including
context, world knowledge, and the linguistic signal itself. How is this information integrated …

Context processing in language comprehension is multifaceted and dynamic, influencing
multiple stages of sensory, perceptual, and higher-order cognitive processing. A wealth of …

Selectional Preference (SP) is a commonly observed language phenomenon and proved to
be useful in many natural language processing tasks. To provide a better evaluation method …

Speech unfolds over time, and the cues for even a single phoneme are rarely available
simultaneously. Consequently, to recognize a single phoneme, listeners must integrate …

Syntactic and semantic information processing can interact selectively during language
comprehension. However, the nature and extent of the interactions, in particular of semantic …