Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

This paper contains an overview of language processing that can be described as “good
enough”,“underspecified”, or “shallow”. The central idea is that a nontrivial proportion of …

Memory access mechanisms such as cue-based retrieval have come to dominate theories of
the processing of linguistic dependencies such as subject-verb agreement. One …

Many studies have shown that attraction effects are consistently found for linguistic
dependencies like subject-verb agreement, eg,* The key to the cabinets are on the table …

In sentence comprehension, what are the cognitive constraints that determine number
agreement computation? Two broad classes of theoretical proposals are:(i) Representation …

Given the replication crisis in cognitive science, it is important to consider what researchers
need to do in order to report results that are reliable. We consider three changes in current …

This study evaluates two broad classes of language processing accounts that make
predictions for sentences like “The admirer of the singer (s) apparently thinks...”. Feature …

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

Abstract Number agreement attraction in comprehension has been extensively studied in
various languages and it has been claimed that attraction effects are generally present …

According to cue-based retrieval theories of sentence comprehension, establishing the
syntactic dependency between a verb and the grammatical subject is susceptible to …