Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills,
but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever …

Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

Experiments that aim to model language processing in spoken dialogue contexts often use
confederates as speakers or addressees. However, the decision of whether to use a …

What distinguishes the two cases? The pronouns in (1) appear in positions where one
would, in a certain sense, have expected to find a gap. The expectation is reasonable …

The scope of linguistic planning, ie, the amount of linguistic information that speakers
prepare in advance for an utterance they are about to produce, is highly variable …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

The interactive-alignment model of dialogue provides an account of dialogue at the level of
explanation normally associated with cognitive psychology. We develop our claim that …

At the heart of the faculty of language are the processes of grammatical encoding.
Grammatical encoding has the task of selecting and retrieving the syntactic and lexical forms …

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the
internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and …