Topic
Sentence processing
About: Sentence processing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2340 publications have been published within this topic receiving 102847 citations.
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TL;DR: The SPLT is shown to explain a wide range of processing complexity phenomena not previously accounted for under a single theory, including the lower complexity of subject-extraction relative clauses compared to object-extracted relative clauses.
2,400 citations
TL;DR: This review argues that sentence processing is supported by a temporo-frontal network, within this network, temporal regions subserve aspects of identification and frontal regions the building of syntactic and semantic relations.
2,214 citations
TL;DR: Findings using an electrophysiological brain component, the N400, that reveal the nature and timing of semantic memory use during language comprehension support a view of memory in which world knowledge is distributed across multiple, plastic-yet-structured, largely modality-specific processing areas, and in which meaning is an emergent, temporally extended process.
2,189 citations
TL;DR: Reinterpreting syntactic ambiguity resolution as a form of lexical ambiguity resolution obviates the need for special parsing principles to account for syntactic interpretation preferences, and provides a more unified account of language comprehension than was previously available.
Abstract: Ambiguity resolution is a central problem in language comprehension. Lexical and syntactic ambiguities are standardly assumed to involve different types of knowledge representations and be resolved by different mechanisms. An alternative account is provided in which both types of ambiguity derive from aspects of lexical representation and are resolved by the same processing mechanisms. Reinterpreting syntactic ambiguity resolution as a form of lexical ambiguity resolution obviates the need for special parsing principles to account for syntactic interpretation preferences, reconciles a number of apparently conflicting results concerning the roles of lexical and contextual information in sentence processing, explains differences among ambiguities in terms of ease of resolution, and provides a more unified account of language comprehension than was previously available.
2,094 citations
TL;DR: A simple information-theoretic characterization of processing difficulty as the work incurred by resource reallocation during parallel, incremental, probabilistic disambiguation in sentence comprehension is proposed, and its equivalence to the theory of Hale is demonstrated.
2,052 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 28 |
| 2024 | 41 |
| 2023 | 90 |
| 2022 | 131 |
| 2021 | 134 |
| 2020 | 110 |