Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Prediction error plays a pivotal role in theories of learning, including theories of language
acquisition and use. Researchers have investigated whether and under which conditions …

Error-based theories of language acquisition suggest that children, like adults, continuously
make and evaluate predictions in order to reach an adult-like state of language use …

Previous studies showed that children learning a language with an obligatory singular/plural
distinction (Russian and English) learn the meaning of the number word for one earlier than …

The implicit learning account of syntactic priming proposes that the same mechanism
underlies syntactic priming and language development, providing a link between a child and …

Children who generate and update verbal predictions have larger vocabularies, suggesting
that prediction may be a mechanism that supports language learning. We hypothesize that …

Abstract Language processing in adults is facilitated by an expert ability to generate detailed
predictions about upcoming words. This may seem like an acquired skill, but some models …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

According to prediction-based learning theories, erroneous predictions support learning.
However, empirical evidence for a relation between prediction error and children's language …