This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing
mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory–the Syntactic Prediction
Locality Theory (SPLT)–has two components: an integration cost component and a ...

A major issue in understanding how language is implemented in the brain involves
understanding the use of language in language comprehension and production. However,
before we look to the brain to see what areas are associated with language processing ...

... on a wide range of sentence types have provided support for Gibson's theory in ... Figure 3. How
Dependency Locality Theory (DLT) 36 measures distances between words. ... The neural location
of the hypothesized overlapping processing regions for language and music is an ...

This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that
object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-
extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject- ...

The P600 component in Event Related Potential research has been hypothesised to be
associated with syntactic reanalysis processes. We, however, propose that the P600 is not
restricted to reanalysis processes, but reflects difficulty with syntactic integration processes ...

Abstract All other things being equal the parser favors attaching an ambiguous modifier to
the most recent possible site. A plausible explanation is that locality preferences such as this
arise in the service of minimizing memory costs—more distant sentential material is more ...

Abstract. Most linguistic theories since Chomsky (1973) have hypothesized that long-
distance dependencies crossing multiple clauses are mediated by intermediate structures.
This paper provides a new source of evidence for the existence of such intermediate ...

Two self-paced reading experiments are presented to assess how temporary ambiguities in
prepositional phrase attachment are resolved in English verb–noun-phrase–prepositional-
phrase sequences. The hypothesis tested is a preference to maximize argument relations, ...

The process of comprehending sentences involves the integration of a variety of different
information sources, constrained by the available computational resources. This paper
surveys the evidence for four types of constraints on sentence comprehension:(1) lexical ...

This article presents two self-paced reading experiments which investigate the role of
storage costs associated with maintaining incomplete syntactic dependencies in structural
ambiguity resolution. We argue that previous work has been equivocal regarding syntactic ...