We present a framework of second and additional language (L2/Ln) acquisition motivated by
recent work on socio‐indexical knowledge in first language (L1) processing. The distribution …

When a listener hears many good examples of a/b/in a row, they are less likely to classify
other sounds on, eg, a/b/-to-/d/continuum as/b/. This phenomenon is known as selective …

What makes possible the co-creation of meaningful action? In this paper, we go in search of
an answer to this question by combining insights from interactional sociology and enaction …

Growing evidence suggests that syntactic processing may be guided in part by expectations
about the statistics of the input that comprehenders have encountered; however, these …

What do we communicate with causal explanations? Upon being told,“E because C”, a
person might learn that C and E both occurred, and perhaps that there is a causal …

Processing language requires integrating information from multiple sources, including
context, world knowledge, and the linguistic signal itself. How is this information integrated …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

We learn language from our social environment, but the more sources we have, the less
informative each source is, and therefore, the less weight we ascribe its input. According to …

The extent to which language processing involves prediction of upcoming inputs remains a
question of ongoing debate. One important data point comes from who reported that an …

Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly
integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's …