Predicting while comprehending language: A theory and review.

MJ Pickering, C Gambi - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Structural priming: a critical review.

MJ Pickering, VS Ferreira - Psychological bulletin, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers have made extensive use
of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid expectation adaptation during syntactic comprehension

AB Fine, TF Jaeger, TA Farmer, T Qian - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended
messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …

Alignment as a consequence of expectation adaptation: Syntactic priming is affected by the prime's prediction error given both prior and recent experience

TF Jaeger, NE Snider - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

An experimental approach to linguistic representation

HP Branigan, MJ Pickering - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
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 …

Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world

F Huettig, E Janse - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Several mechanisms of predictive language processing have been proposed. The possible
influence of mediating factors such as working memory and processing speed, however, has …

Analyzing 'visual world'eyetracking data using multilevel logistic regression

DJ Barr - Journal of memory and language, 2008 - Elsevier
A new framework is offered that uses multilevel logistic regression (MLR) to analyze data
from 'visual world'eyetracking experiments used in psycholinguistic research. The MLR …

Experience and sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension

JB Wells, MH Christiansen, DS Race, DJ Acheson… - Cognitive …, 2009 - Elsevier
Many explanations of the difficulties associated with interpreting object relative clauses
appeal to the demands that object relatives make on working memory. MacDonald and …

Shared syntax in language production and language comprehension—an fMRI study

K Segaert, L Menenti, K Weber, KM Petersson… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
During speaking and listening syntactic processing is a crucial step. It involves specifying
syntactic relations between words in a sentence. If the production and comprehension …

Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals: Evidence for the role of word-order repetition.

S Bernolet, RJ Hartsuiker… - Journal of Experimental …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Studies on syntactic priming strongly suggest that bilinguals can store a single integrated
representation of constructions that are similar in both languages (eg, Spanish and English …