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 …

The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

observed that “island” structures like “Who do you think [NP the gift from__] prompted the
rumor?” or “Who did you hear [NP the statement [S that the CEO promoted__]]?” are not …

A recent trend in psycholinguistic research has been to posit prediction as an essential
function of language processing. The present paper develops a linguistic perspective on …

The goal of this contribution to the Elements series is to closely examine Merge, its form, its
function, and its central role in current linguistic theory. It explores what it does (and does not …

Second language (L2) sentence processing research studies how adult L2 learners
understand sentences in real time. I review how L2 sentence processing differs from …

Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction
across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been …

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and
the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence …

In a series of experiments, Wilcox et al.(2019, 2019) provide evidence suggesting that
general-purpose state-of-the-art LSTM RNN language models have not only learned …

A parasitic gap construction typically occurs when an otherwise illicit gap in an island is
ameliorated by a gap elsewhere in the sentence. In this paper, we consider the relationship …