This article introduces the P-chain, an emerging framework for theory in psycholinguistics
that unifies research on comprehension, production and acquisition. The framework …

The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently,
bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

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 …

Word co‐occurrence patterns in language corpora contain a surprising amount of
conceptual knowledge. Large language models (LLMs), trained to predict words in context …

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult
speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) …

In 1980, the N400 event-related potential was described in association with semantic
anomalies within sentences. When, in 1992, a second waveform, the P600, was reported in …

Many explanations of the difficulties associated with interpreting object relative clauses
appeal to the demands that object relatives make on working memory. MacDonald and …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …