Linguistic complexity: Locality of syntactic dependencies

E Gibson - Cognition, 1998‏ - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction …

[ספר][B] Second language sentence processing

A Juffs, GA Rodríguez - 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a
comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second …

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 …

Processing syntactic relations in language and music: An event-related potential study

AD Patel, E Gibson, J Ratner, M Besson… - Journal of cognitive …, 1998‏ - direct.mit.edu
In order to test the language-specificity of a known neural correlate of syntactic processing
[the P600 event-related brain potential (ERP) component], this study directly compared …

The extended argument dependency model: a neurocognitive approach to sentence comprehension across languages.

I Bornkessel, M Schlesewsky - Psychological review, 2006‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Real-time language comprehension is a principal cognitive ability and thereby relates to
central properties of the human cognitive architecture. Yet how do the presumably universal …

[PDF][PDF] Order and structure

C Phillips - 1996‏ - dspace.mit.edu
I should clarify at the outset what I mean by the term parser. I take this to refer specifically to
tht: structure building system that it used in sentence recognition, and not to the many other …

ERP effects of the processing of syntactic long-distance dependencies

C Phillips, N Kazanina, SH Abada - Cognitive Brain Research, 2005‏ - Elsevier
In behavioral studies on sentence comprehension, much evidence indicates that shorter
dependencies are preferred over longer dependencies, and that longer dependencies incur …

Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism

E Gibson, N Pearlmutter, E Canseco-Gonzalez… - Cognition, 1996‏ - Elsevier
Cuetos and Mitchell (1988) observed that in constructions in which a relative clause can
attach to one of two possible sites, English speakers prefer the more recent attachment site …

Processing filler-gap dependencies in a head-final language

S Aoshima, C Phillips, A Weinberg - Journal of memory and language, 2004‏ - Elsevier
This paper investigates the processing of long-distance filler-gap dependencies in
Japanese, a strongly head-final language. Two self-paced reading experiments and one …

Subject-object ambiguities in German embedded clauses: An across-the-board comparison

M Bader, M Meng - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1999‏ - Springer
This paper examines the processing of embedded clauses in German which are ambiguous
between a subject-before-object and an object-before-subject order. In an experiment using …