Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Considerable empirical evidence indicates that perceivers construct a grammatical
representation of sentences during comprehension. The principles underlying constituent …

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 …

Three experiments addressed the question whether semantic content or pragmatic context
can direct the initial syntactic analysis assigned to sentences. Each experiment determined …

There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at
many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.'An excellent and
very welcome guide to psycholinguistics… highly recommended.'The Washington Post A …

Event-related potentials were recorded from 13 scalp locations while participants read
sentences containing a syntactic ambiguity. In Experiment 1, syntactically disambiguating …

Natural languages must be learnable. They must also be parsable and producible. These
three functional demands place clear constraints on the shape of natural language. This …

Simple Dutch declaratives and questions were presented in a grammaticality judgment task
to assess the validity of the “active filler strategy”(AFS). The AFS predicts that moved …