Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

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 …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

How do general-purpose cognitive abilities affect language processing and
comprehension? Recent research emphasises a role for cognitive control—also called …

We report an investigation of aging and individual differences in binding information during
sentence understanding. An age-continuous sample of adults (N= 91), ranging from 18 to 81 …

The present study addresses the questions of (a) whether Korean learners of English show
sensitivity to subject–verb agreement violations in an eye-tracking paradigm, and (b) how …

We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating how native and
non-native speakers of English process temporarily ambiguous sentences such as While the …

Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted to compare the online reading and offline
comprehension of main verb/reduced relative garden-path sentences and local coherence …

A self-paced reading and translation task was used with learners of English as a second
language (L2) to explore what sorts of information L2 learners use during online …

In two self-paced reading and one ERP experiments, this study tested the good-enough
processing account, which states that readers sometimes misinterpret sentences like While …