Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

Usage-based approaches typically draw on a relatively small set of cognitive processes,
such as categorization, analogy, and chunking to explain language structure and function …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …

Constructions work Page 1 Constructions work ADELE E. GOLDBERG1 Abstract This paper
provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e¤ort to evaluate, clarify and …

Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at
many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of …

This paper introduces an extension of distinctive-collocate analysis that takes into account
grammatical structure and is specifically geared to investigating pairs of semantically similar …

Traditionally, prediction has been considered an inefficient and cognitively expensive
processing mechanism in the domain of language comprehension, where there are many …

Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between
rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many …