This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

Many theories have been proposed to explain difficulty with center embedded constructions,
most attributing the problem to some kind of limited-capacity short-term memory. However …

This paper reports the results of five experiments designed to investigate the effects of
referential processing on sentence complexity. Gibson (Cognition, 68 (1998) 1) suggested …

A common view in theoretical syntax and computational linguistics holds that there are no
grammatical restrictions on multiple center-embedding of clauses. Syntax would thus be …

This thesis presents NL-Soar, a detailed computational model of human sentence
comprehension that accounts for a broad range of psycholinguistic phenomena. NL-Soar …

It is well known that even extremely limited centerembedding causes people to have
difficulty ill comprehension, but that left-and right-branching constractions produce no such …

Linguistic competence cannot be adequately characterized by grammatical devices of finite
state power. Nevertheless, there are reasons to suspect that the human parsing device …

This paper shows that systematic properties of performance systems can play an important
role within the biolinguistic perspective on language by providing third-factor explanations …

This dissertation is concerned with the problem of how structured linguistic representations
interact with the architecture of human memory. Much recent work has attempted to unify …

Linguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread
impact of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme, Kayne's Antisymmetry Theory, and Kayne's …