A commonly used concept in linguistics is salience. Oftentimes it is used without definition,
and the meaning of the concept is repeatedly assumed to be self-explanatory. The …

Cognitive linguists are bound by the cognitive commitment, which is the commitment to
providing a characterization of the general principles governing all aspects of human …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Significant challenges exist globally regarding literacy teaching and learning. To address
these challenges, key features of how the brain works should be taken into account. First …

Prediction is held to be a fundamental process underpinning perception, action, and
cognition. To examine the time course of prediction error signaling, we recorded intracranial …

Deep learning (DL) approaches may also inform the analysis of human brain activity. Here,
a state-of-art DL tool for natural language processing, the Generative Pre-trained …

Mass shootings are becoming more frequent in the United States, as we routinely learn from
the media about attempts that have been prevented or tragedies that destroyed entire …

Recent research in psycholinguistics has provided increasing evidence that humans predict
upcoming content. Prediction also affects perception and might be a key to robustness in …

The exaggerated intonation and special rhythmic properties of infant-directed speech (IDS)
have been hypothesized to attract infants' attention to the speech stream. However, there …

Abstract Domain‐general prediction differences have been posited as underlying many
aspects of the cognitive‐behavioral profile in autism. An interesting potential implication of …