Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

Speaking (1989) inspired research on topics such as word selection, syntactic formulation,
and dialogue, but an issue that remains understudied is linearisation: the question of how …

The experimental investigation of language-mediated visual attention is a promising way to
study the interaction of the cognitive systems involved in language, vision, attention, and …

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on
typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field …

The theoretical notion of 'construal'captures the idea that the way in which we describe a
scene reflects our conceptualization of it. Relying on the concept of ception–which conjoins …

This chapter provides an introduction to some of the key methods commonly used in
psycholinguistic research. We will focus on three main types of methods: reaction-time …

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical
rules in language usage. Speakers and addressees need to contend with these rules when …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

This study investigated how thematic priming via visual and linguistic cues influences the
choice of syntactic voice in healthy French-speaking adults and in French-speaking children …

The world is visually complex, yet we can efficiently describe it by extracting the information
that is most relevant to convey. How do the properties of real-world scenes help us decide …