Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

A machine learning system can score well on a given test set by relying on heuristics that
are effective for frequent example types but break down in more challenging cases. We …

A major goal of psycholinguistic theory is to account for the cognitive constraints limiting the
speed and ease of language comprehension and production. Wide-ranging evidence …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in
human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic …

Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to
anticipate future words. Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary …

Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject–verb
agreement (eg,'The key to the cabinets are on the table',[Bock, JK, & Miller, CA (1991) …

Understanding a sentence requires a working memory of the partial products of
comprehension, so that linguistic relations between temporally distal parts of the sentence …