This paper contains an overview of language processing that can be described as “good
enough”,“underspecified”, or “shallow”. The central idea is that a nontrivial proportion of …

The facilitation of word processing by sentence context reflects the interaction between the
build-up of message-level semantics and lexical processing. Yet, little is known about how …

Neural oscillations are thought to support speech and language processing. They may not
only inherit acoustic rhythms, but might also impose endogenous rhythms onto processing …

Language can be viewed as a set of cues that modulate the comprehender's thought
processes. It is a very subtle instrument. For example, the literature suggests that people …

Across languages, the speech signal is characterized by a predominant modulation of the
amplitude spectrum between about 4.3 and 5.5 Hz, reflecting the production and processing …

Auditory perceptual simulation (APS) during silent reading refers to situations in which the
reader actively simulates the voice of a character or other person depicted in a text. In three …

In describing motion events verbs of manner provide information about the speed of agents
or objects in those events. We used eye tracking to investigate how inferences about this …

We present four experiments investigating adaptation to a regional grammatical structure
through reading exposure, using both the needs+ past participle construction (eg, The car …

In light of population aging, an understanding of factors that promote lifelong cognitive
resilience is urgent. There is considerable evidence that education early in the life span …

The current study employed an eye-movement technique with an attempt to explore the
reading patterns for the two types of Chinese relative clauses, subject-extracted relative …