Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Wait a second! Delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction

WY Chow, E Lau, S Wang, C Phillips - Language, Cognition and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Comprehenders can use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly,
but recent findings suggest that salient information about argument roles may not impact …

Beyond cloze probability: Parafoveal processing of semantic and syntactic information during reading

A Veldre, S Andrews - Journal of Memory and Language, 2018 - Elsevier
Theories of eye movement control in reading assume that early oculomotor decisions are
determined by a word's frequency and cloze probability. This assumption is challenged by …

Prosodic expectations in silent reading: ERP evidence from rhyme scheme and semantic congruence in classic Chinese poems

Q Chen, J Zhang, X Xu, C Scheepers, Y Yang… - Cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
In an ERP study, classic Chinese poems with a well-known rhyme scheme were used to
generate an expectation of a rhyme in the absence of an expectation for a specific character …

Sensitivity to meaningful regularities acquired through experience

A Ulicheva, M Marelli, K Rastle - Morphology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract English spelling provides multiple cues to word meaning, and these cues are
readily exploited by skilled readers. In two crowdsourcing studies, we tested skilled readers' …

Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production

B Gagl, K Gregorova, J Golch, S Hawelka… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
Across languages, the speech signal is characterized by a predominant modulation of the
amplitude spectrum between about 4.3 and 5.5 Hz, reflecting the production and processing …

Merging generative linguistics and psycholinguistics

J Martorell - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
There have been constant debates about the connection between the theoretical postulates
of generative linguistics (Chomsky, 1965, 1995) and the experimental research carried out …

Capitalization interacts with syntactic complexity.

MG Cutter, AE Martin, P Sturt - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigated whether readers use the low-level cue of proper noun capitalization in the
parafovea to infer syntactic category, and whether this results in an early update of the …

Illuminating the complexity of oral reading fluency: A multiple lens approach

A Percle, L Arrington, AD Flurkey… - Literacy Research …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Oral reading fluency is recognized as an important variable associated with the assessment
of reading proficiency. Frequently, fluency assessments distill a child's overall reading …

The effect of character contextual diversity on eye movements in Chinese sentence reading

Q Chen, G Zhao, X Huang, Y Yang… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Chen, Huang, et al.(Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2017) found that when
reading two-character Chinese words embedded in sentence contexts, contextual diversity …