The syntactic preferences of briefly displayed prime words were found to affect readers'
ability to resolve temporary syntactic ambiguities. In two self-paced reading experiments …

Research on processing in English has shown that verb information facilitates predictive
processing. Because Japanese verbs occur at the ends of clauses, this information cannot …

This study investigated the effects of first language word-level reading skills on the
development of English as a second language (ESL) word-level reading skills. A …

Using a self-paced moving window reading paradigm, we examine the degree to which
structural commitments made while 60 Spanish–English L2 speakers read syntactically …

We employ code-switching (the alternation of two languages in bilingual communication) to
test the hypothesis, derived from experience-based models of processing (eg, Boland …

Textverstehen ist ein grundlegender Teil der menschlichen Sprachverarbeitung und
beinhaltet einen kognitiven und einen kommunikativen Aspekt. Der kognitive Aspekt bezieht …

How children go about learning the general regularities that govern language, as well as
keeping track of the exceptions to them, remains one of the challenging open questions in …

This study investigates whether and how individual differences modulate the adult second
language (L2) processing of syntactic ambiguities. In a linear mixed regression analysis, we …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

The probabilistic relation between verbs and their arguments plays an important role in
psychological theories of human language processing. Unfortunately, different methods of …