Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an
evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to …

In human sentence processing, cognitive load can be defined many ways. This report
considers a definition of cognitive load in terms of the total probability of structural options …

This book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational
linguistics, and experimental psycholinguistics, presenting them as an integrated theory of …

Neurolinguistic accounts of sentence comprehension identify a network of relevant brain
regions, but do not detail the information flowing through them. We investigate syntactic …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

How does a parser, a device that imposes an analysis on a string of symbols so that they
can be interpreted, work? More specifically, how does the parser in the human cognitive …

We present a method for calculating lower bounds on the space required and local
ambiguities entailed by parsing strategies. A fast, compact natural language parser must …

Abstract Language use is full of subsentential shifts of context, a phenomenon dramatically
illustrated in conversation where non-sentential utterances displaying seamless shifts …

Research investigating the brain basis of language comprehension has associated the left
anterior temporal lobe (ATL) with sentence‐level combinatorics. Using …

In this illuminating new theory of grammar, Hubert Haider demonstrates that there is a basic
asymmetry in the phrase structure of any language, whatever sentence structure it takes …