Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

K Rayner - Psychological bulletin, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such
as music reading, ty**, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major …

Trends in syntactic parsing: Anticipation, Bayesian estimation, and good-enough parsing

MJ Traxler - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Syntactic parsing processes establish dependencies between words in a sentence. These
dependencies affect how comprehenders assign meaning to sentence constituents …

Understanding heritage languages

M Polinsky, G Scontras - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2020 - cambridge.org
With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

A systematic assessment of syntactic generalization in neural language models

J Hu, J Gauthier, P Qian, E Wilcox, RP Levy - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
While state-of-the-art neural network models continue to achieve lower perplexity scores on
language modeling benchmarks, it remains unknown whether optimizing for broad …

Large-scale benchmark yields no evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty

KJ Huang, S Arehalli, M Kugemoto, C Muxica… - Journal of Memory and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Prediction has been proposed as an overarching principle that explains human information
processing in language and beyond. To what degree can processing difficulty in …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Interpreting figurative meaning

RW Gibbs Jr, HL Colston - 2012 - books.google.com
Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Plausibility and verb subcategorization in temporarily ambiguous sentences: Evidence from self-paced reading

MJ Traxler - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2005 - Springer
A self-paced reading experiment investigated processing of sentences containing a noun-
phrase that could temporarily be mistaken as the direct-object argument of a verb in a …

Thematic roles assigned along the garden path linger

K Christianson, A Hollingworth, JF Halliwell… - Cognitive …, 2001 - Elsevier
In the literature dealing with the reanalysis of garden path sentences such as While the man
hunted the deer ran into the woods, it is generally assumed either that people completely …

Processing subject and object relative clauses: Evidence from eye movements

MJ Traxler, RK Morris, RE Seely - Journal of memory and language, 2002 - Elsevier
Three eye-movement-monitoring experiments investigated processing of sentences
containing subject-relative and object-relative clauses. The first experiment showed that …

On the meaning of words and dinosaur bones: Lexical knowledge without a lexicon

JL Elman - Cognitive science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between
rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many …