Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language
comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains—somewhat—repetitive trains of air …

Over the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central component of skilled
reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum. However, much of this focus has …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to review and discuss theories of working memory with
special attention to their relevance to language processing. Method We begin with an …

Research on speech processing is often focused on a phenomenon termed “entrainment”,
whereby the cortex shadows rhythmic acoustic information with oscillatory activity …

This article reviews several recent studies suggesting that—contrary to a widespread belief—
adult monolingual native speakers of the same language do not share the same mental …

A growing body of research has investigated bilingual sentence processing. How to account
for differences in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing is controversial. Some explain …

The book investigates theories and measures of working memory in second language
learning, processing and development. Research syntheses, theoretical perspectives and …

We review previous research showing that representations formed during language
processing are sometimes just “good enough” for the task at hand and propose the “online …

The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of text difficulty on the oral reading
prosody of young children. Fluency in reading is ideally determined by measuring rate …