As in any field of scientific inquiry, advancements in the field of second language acquisition
(SLA) rely in part on the interpretation and generalizability of study findings using …

This article reviews the some of the most widely used methods used for studying children's
language acquisition including (1) spontaneous/naturalistic, diary, parental report data,(2) …

It is well known that real-time human language processing is highly incremental and context-
driven, and that the strength of a comprehender's expectation for each word encountered is …

When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, singing activities for children and young
people have been strictly regulated with far-reaching consequences for music education in …

Three experiments investigated the processing of the implicature associated with some
using a “gumball paradigm.” On each trial, participants saw an image of a gumball machine …

In this study, emission rates of aerosols emitted by professional singers were measured with
a laser particle counter under cleanroom conditions. The emission rates during singing …

A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than
object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented …

Probabilistic expectations and memory limitations are central factors governing the real-time
comprehension of natural language, but how the two factors interact remains poorly …

Although syntactic complexity has been investigated across dozens of studies, the available
data still greatly underdetermine relevant theories of processing difficulty. Memory-based …