In human sentence processing, cognitive load can be defined many ways. This report
considers a definition of cognitive load in terms of the total probability of structural options …

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a
comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the
present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences …

▪ Abstract Readers and listeners use linguistic structure in comprehending sentences and
texts. We review research, mostly published in the past five years, that addresses the …

This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that
object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject …

This study investigates the way adult second language (L2) learners of English resolve
relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of …

We conducted a large-scale corpus analysis indicating that pronominal object relative
clauses are significantly more frequent than pronominal subject relative clauses when the …

A series of self-paced reading time experiments was performed to assess how
characteristics of noun phrases (NPs) contribute to the difference in processing difficulty …

This monograph presents evidence from an interrelated set of experiments designed to
investigate aspects of sentence processing comparing bilinguals and monolinguals, testing …