Dependency distance, measured by the linear distance between two syntactically related
words in a sentence, is generally held as an important index of memory burden and an …

We address two important questions about the relationship between theoretical linguistics
and psycholinguistics. First, do grammatical theories and language processing models …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on
them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

The question of whether humans represent grammatical knowledge as a binary condition on
membership in a set of well‐formed sentences, or as a probabilistic property has been the …

Abstract Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) is a Web application that provides instant access
to thousands of potential participants for survey-based psychology experiments, such as the …

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 source of syntactic island effects has been a topic of considerable debate within
linguistics and psycholinguistics. Explanations fall into three basic categories: grammatical …