This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …

This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in
human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic …

Three eye-tracking experiments using the 'visual-world'paradigm are described that explore
the basis by which thematic dependencies can be evaluated in advance of linguistic input …

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without
apparent effort, without even being taught-as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling …

This paper reports four experiments that test whether persistent problems of second-
language (L2) learners with L2 inflection, such as case or subject–verb agreement, are the …

On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical
('scrambled') structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [eg, Hyönä & …

Studies monitoring eye-movements in scenes containing entities have provided robust
evidence for incremental reference resolution processes. This paper addresses the less …

Two studies investigated the interaction between utterance and scene processing by
monitoring eye movements in agent–action–patient events, while participants listened to …

The processing of locally ambiguous wh-phrases has received much attention in the last
years, and experimental results reported in the literature converge in at least one respect: if …