Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Ferreira and colleagues argued that the language comprehension system creates syntactic
and semantic representations that are merely 'good enough'(GE) given the task that the …

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

How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-
gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of …

There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

Disfluency is a common occurrence in speech and is generally thought to be related to
difficulty in the production system. One unexplored issue is the extent to which inhibition is …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on syntactic parsing. Majority of
sentence processing research has continued to address relatively traditional topics such as …

Participant's eye-movements were recorded while they read locally ambiguous sentences.
Evidence for processing difficulty was found when the interpretation of the initially preferred …

A crucial part of understanding a sentence is to construct its syntactic structure. Without this,
it would be very difficult for language users to determine that sentences with different word …