Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

Interactions between sentences and the individual words that comprise them are reviewed
in studies using the event‐related brain potential (ERP). Results suggest that, for ambiguous …

Readers' eye movements were monitored as they read sentences containing lexically
ambiguous words. The ambiguous words were either biased (one strongy dominant …

In 2 eye-movement experiments, the authors tested whether transitional probability (the
statistical likelihood that a word precedes or follows another word) affects reading times and …

By the time that Fodor's Modularity (g/'Mind was published in 1983. there was already a
sizable literature concerned with the problem of lexical ambiguity tie, the retrieval of …

Two experiments assessed the timecourse of meaning activation for ambiguous words.
Subjects read sentences ending in homographs, and named a subsequent target. When the …

In two eye-tracking experiments the role of contrastive pitch accents during the on-line
determination of referents was examined. In both experiments, German listeners looked …

Three experiments investigated the effects of focus on memory for words in written
sentences. The effect of focusing phrases, such as It was the... and There was this... on …

In two experiments, we explored how readers encode information that is linguistically
focused. Subjects read sentences in which a word or phrase was focused by a syntactic …

Listeners efficiently exploit sentence prosody to direct attention to words bearing sentence
accent. This effect has been explained as a search for focus, furthering rapid apprehension …