Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming
words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature …

In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register:
Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412), we assess the …

Composing sentence meaning is easier for predictable words than for unpredictable words.
Are predictable words genuinely predicted, or simply more plausible and therefore easier to …

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

The use of statistical inference in linguistics and related areas like psychology typically
involves a binary decision: either reject or accept some null hypothesis using statistical …

The extent to which language processing involves prediction of upcoming inputs remains a
question of ongoing debate. One important data point comes from who reported that an …

Late positive event-related potential (ERP) components occurring after the N400,
traditionally linked to reanalysis due to syntactic incongruence, are increasingly considered …

Abstract Language processing in adults is facilitated by an expert ability to generate detailed
predictions about upcoming words. This may seem like an acquired skill, but some models …