Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic
ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations …

This article examines the nature and development of fluent L2/ESL word integration skills
involved in lower‐level text processing. Four theoretical approaches to word integration and …

Immediate effects of verb-specific syntactic (subcategorization) information were found in a
cross-modal naming experiment, a self-paced reading experiment, and an experiment in …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

Event-related potentials were recorded from 13 scalp locations while participants read
sentences containing a syntactic ambiguity. In Exp 1, syntactically disambiguating words that …

Many recent models of language comprehension have stressed the role of distributional
frequencies in determining the relative accessibility or ease of processing associated with a …

In five experiments we examined the way in which readers reanalyze garden-path
sentences, using grammaticality judgments as the dependent measure. The stimuli were …

Natural languages contain probabilistic constraints that influence the resolution of
ambiguities. Current models of sentence processing agree that probabilistic constraints …

There is general agreement within the neuroscience and cognitive-science communities that
complex multidimensional stimuli are represented and processed in at least partially …

There are three obvious differences between first and second language learners. First,
infants who are learning language are also engaged in learning about how the world works …