Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Probabilistic methods are providing new explanatory approaches to fundamental cognitive
science questions of how humans structure, process and acquire language. This review …

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 …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

We evaluate the predictions of two theories of syntactic processing complexity, dependency
locality theory (DLT) and surprisal, against the Dundee Corpus, which contains the eye …

Three eye-movement-monitoring experiments investigated processing of sentences
containing subject-relative and object-relative clauses. The first experiment showed that …

Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences in which two noun
phrases or two independent clauses were connected by the word or (NP-coordination and S …

Page 1 Readability: Text and Context Alan Bailin and Ann Grafstein Page 2 Readability:
Text and Context Page 3 Also by Alan Bailin THE CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF …

It must certainly be accounted a paradox that probabilistic modeling is simultaneously one of
the oldest and one of the newest areas in psycholinguistics. Much research in linguistics and …