The disambiguation of a syntactically ambiguous sentence in favor of a less preferred parse
can lead to slower reading at the disambiguation point. This phenomenon, referred to as a …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

Research in sentence processing has increasingly examined the role of individual
differences in language comprehension. In work on native and nonnative sentence …

Written language comprehension requires readers to integrate incoming information with
stored mental knowledge to construct meaning. Literally plausible idiomatic expressions can …

Expanding on psycholinguistic research on linguistic adaptation, the phenomenon whereby
speakers change how they comprehend or produce structures as a result of cumulative …

When estimating the influence of sentence complexity on reading, researchers typically opt
for one of two main approaches: Measuring syntactic complexity (SC) or transitional …

Recent studies indicate that the processing of an unexpected word is costly when the initial,
disconfirmed prediction was strong. This penalty was suggested to stem from commitment to …

According to certain approaches to adaptation, readers and listeners quickly adjust their
processing of sentences to match properties of recently encountered sentences. The present …

With the advancement of technologies like in-car navigation and smartphones, concerns
around how cognitive functioning is influenced by``workload''are increasingly prevalent …

The study of linguistic complexity is a deeply multidisciplinary area, ranging from the study of
cognitive processing in human readers to the classification of structural complexity …