This paper puts forward a research agenda in the area of explicit and implicit knowledge
and learning of second or additional languages. Based on a brief overview of reliable …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language
outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present …

Language processing research is changing in two ways that should make it more relevant to
the study of grammatical learning. First, grammatical phenomena are re-entering the …

Speech unfolds swiftly, yet listeners keep pace by rapidly assigning meaning to what they
hear. Sometimes, though, initial interpretations turn out to be wrong. How do listeners revise …

We tested toddlers' and adults' predictive use of English subject–verb agreement.
Participants saw pairs of pictures differing in number and kind (eg, one apple, two cookies) …

Error-based theories of language acquisition suggest that children, like adults, continuously
make and evaluate predictions in order to reach an adult-like state of language use …

Regions within the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) have simultaneously been implicated in
syntactic processing and cognitive control. Accounts attempting to unify LIFG's function …

During language comprehension we must rapidly determine the thematic roles of arguments
(who did what to whom) in order to semantically integrate the players into a single event and …

We used eye-tracking to investigate if and when children show an incremental bias to
assume that the first noun phrase in a sentence is the agent (first-NP-as-agent bias) while …