This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper …

The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a
language, and yet little is known about how language learners comprehend or produce …

A strong claim about human sentence comprehension is that the processing mechanism is
fully innate and applies differently to different languages only to the extent that their …

An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences
sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 …

To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the
present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences …

This study investigates the way adult second language (L2) learners of English resolve
relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of …

Three sentence completion experiments will be reported in which participants had to
generate German equivalents of “the servant of the actress who…”(NP-of-NP-RC) …

Three eye-tracking experiments investigated ambiguity resolution in sentences containing
adjunct modifiers. The experiments tested readers' response to sentences that began with a …

Results from an English acceptability-rating experiment are presented which demonstrate
that people find doubly nested relative clause structures just as acceptable when only two …