Reviewed are studies using event‐related potentials to examine when and how sentence
context information is used during language comprehension. Results suggest that, when it …

Syntax is one of the components in the architecture of language processing that allows the
listener/reader to bind single-word information into a unified interpretation of multiword …

Understanding spoken language requires transforming ambiguous acoustic streams into a
hierarchy of representations, from phonemes to meaning. It has been suggested that the …

Objective: A fundamental problem in the study of human spoken word recognition concerns
the structural relations among the sound patterns of words in memory and the effects these …

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and
grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of grammar be explained through …

Investigated the lexical entry for morphologically complex words in English. Six experiments,
using a cross-modal repetition priming task, asked whether the lexical entry for derivationally …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse
rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is unfolding. In an event …

The N400 is an endogenous event-related brain potential (ERP) that is sensitive to semantic
processes during language comprehension. The general question we address in this paper …

In this chapter, we present a model of the development of spoken word recognition, the
processes involved in matching speech input to lexical patterns stored in memory. Our …