This article shows how language processing is intimately tuned to input frequency.
Examples are given of frequency effects in the processing of phonology, phonotactics …

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

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over
time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from …

Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

Scanning of the visual scene is an important selective process in visual perception. In this
article we argue that eye-movement data provide an excellent on-line indication of the …

In the literature dealing with the reanalysis of garden path sentences such as While the man
hunted the deer ran into the woods, it is generally assumed either that people completely …

A great deal of psycholinguistic research has focused on the question of how adults interpret
language in real time. This work has revealed a complex and interactive language …

The time-course with which readers use event-specific world knowledge (thematic fit) to
resolve structural ambiguity was explored through experiments and implementation of …