Over the last 25 years, the visual world paradigm has enabled discoveries and theoretical
advances in spoken language processing. However, the intuitive interpretation of fixations in …

Contextual cues can be used to improve speech recognition, especially for people with
hearing impairment. However, previous work has suggested that when the auditory signal is …

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 …

This paper investigates the role of resource allocation as a source of processing difficulty in
human sentence comprehension. The paper proposes a simple information-theoretic …

We conducted a large-scale corpus analysis indicating that pronominal object relative
clauses are significantly more frequent than pronominal subject relative clauses when the …

Recent work has suggested that readers' initial and incorrect interpretation of temporarily
ambiguous (“garden path”) sentences (eg, Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira …

Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that
are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption …

A central question for psycholinguistics concerns the role of grammatical constraints in
online sentence processing. Many current theories maintain that the language processing …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

I argue that cue integration, a psychophysiological mechanism from vision and multisensory
perception, offers a computational linking hypothesis between psycholinguistic theory and …