observed that “island” structures like “Who do you think [NP the gift from__] prompted the
rumor?” or “Who did you hear [NP the statement [S that the CEO promoted__]]?” are not …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

A growing body of research has investigated bilingual sentence processing. How to account
for differences in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing is controversial. Some explain …

We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored
Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers …

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 …

The grammar of L will thus be a device that generates all of the grammatical sequences of L
and none of the ungrammatical ones. One way to test the adequacy of a grammar proposed …

A long-standing question in sentence processing research concerns the online parsing
process in clause-boundary garden-path sentences, such as After Mary dressed John …

When forming a dependency between two elements of a sentence, the processor must
retrieve a grammaticality licensed element from memory. Previous research has suggested …

In many different domains of language acquisition, there exists an apparent learnability
problem to which innate knowledge of some aspect of universal grammar (UG) has been …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …