Dependency distance, measured by the linear distance between two syntactically related
words in a sentence, is generally held as an important index of memory burden and an …

It is generally assumed that hierarchical phrase structure plays a central role in human
language. However, considerations of simplicity and evolutionary continuity suggest that …

Second language (L2) researchers are becoming more interested in both L2 learners'
knowledge of the target language and how that knowledge is put to use during real-time …

This article investigates whether and how L2 sentence processing is affected by memory
constraints that force serial parsing. Monitoring eye movements, we test effects of working …

A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than
object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented …

Probabilistic expectations and memory limitations are central factors governing the real-time
comprehension of natural language, but how the two factors interact remains poorly …

Although syntactic complexity has been investigated across dozens of studies, the available
data still greatly underdetermine relevant theories of processing difficulty. Memory-based …

Chinese relative clauses are an important test case for pitting the predictions of expectation-
based accounts against those of memory-based theories. The memory-based accounts …

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on
typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field …

This study investigates whether and how individual differences modulate the adult second
language (L2) processing of syntactic ambiguities. In a linear mixed regression analysis, we …