With the arrival of the R packages nlme and lme4, linear mixed models (LMMs) have come
to be widely used in experimentally-driven areas like psychology, linguistics, and cognitive …

In the generative tradition, the language faculty has been shrinking—perhaps to include only
the mechanism of recursion. This paper argues that even this view of the language faculty is …

A major goal of psycholinguistic theory is to account for the cognitive constraints limiting the
speed and ease of language comprehension and production. Wide-ranging evidence …

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 …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

A key component of research on human sentence processing is to characterize the
processing difficulty associated with the comprehension of words in context. Models that …

We provide an introductory review of Bayesian data analytical methods, with a focus on
applications for linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science. The …

Languages vary considerably in syntactic structure. About 40% of the world's languages
have subject–verb–object order, and about 40% have subject–object–verb order. Extensive …

Data from self-paced reading (SPR) tasks are routinely checked for statistical outliers
(Marsden, Thompson, & Plonsky, 2018). Such data points can be handled in a variety of …

Sentence comprehension requires that the comprehender work out who did what to whom.
This process has been characterized as retrieval from memory. This review summarizes the …