Individual differences in language acquisition and processing

E Kidd, S Donnelly, MH Christiansen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

Aligning grammatical theories and language processing models

S Lewis, C Phillips - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015 - Springer
We address two important questions about the relationship between theoretical linguistics
and psycholinguistics. First, do grammatical theories and language processing models …

Pinning down the concept of “interface” in bilingualism

A Sorace - Linguistic approaches to bilingualism, 2011 - jbe-platform.com
The 'Interface Hypothesis'(IH) was put forward by Sorace and colleagues as an attempt to
account for patterns of non-convergence and residual optionality found at very advanced …

An experimental approach to linguistic representation

HP Branigan, MJ Pickering - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001–2010

J Sprouse, CT Schütze, D Almeida - Lingua, 2013 - Elsevier
The goal of the present study is to provide a direct comparison of the results of informal
judgment collection methods with the results of formal judgment collection methods, as a first …

Parsing and working memory in bilingual sentence processing

I Cunnings - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017 - cambridge.org
A growing body of research has investigated bilingual sentence processing. How to account
for differences in native (L1) and non-native (L2) processing is controversial. Some explain …

[PDF][PDF] The architecture of grammar and the division of labour in exponence

R Bermúdez-Otero - The morphology and phonology of exponence, 2012 - Citeseer
The architecture of grammar and the division of labour in exponence Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
University of Manchester 29 November Page 1 1 of 95 The architecture of grammar and the …

Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex

C Shain, IA Blank, E Fedorenko, E Gibson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

Assessing the reliability of textbook data in syntax: Adger's Core Syntax1

J Sprouse, D Almeida - Journal of Linguistics, 2012 - cambridge.org
There has been a consistent pattern of criticism of the reliability of acceptability judgment
data in syntax for at least 50 years (eg, Hill 1961), culminating in several high-profile …

Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction

A Abeillé, B Hemforth, E Winckel, E Gibson - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to explain the unacceptability of certain long-distance dependencies–termed
syntactic islands by Ross (1967)–syntacticians proposed constraints on long-distance …