Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

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 …

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 …

Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'.
Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on
performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this …

Structural priming in language production is a tendency to recreate a recently uttered
syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific …

Abstract MA Just and PA Carpenter's (1992) capacity theory of comprehension posits a
linguistic working memory functionally separated from the representation of linguistic …

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, ie the tendency to
reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two …

In structural priming, the structure of one sentence is echoed in the structure of a second
sentence that may be otherwise unrelated to the first. It can occur without the intention to …