The lexicalist model of human sentence processing (MacDonald et al. 1994) provides an account for the interaction of lexical frequency eeects with contextual information in the resolution of syntactic ambiguities. In this paper, we present an implementation of a connectionist network which evaluates the predictions of the lexicalist model for NP/S garden paths. Our network is trained using a co...

We report 3 experiments that examined younger and older adults' reliance on "good-enough" interpretations for garden-path sentences (e.g., "While Anna dressed the baby played in the crib") as indicated by their responding "Yes" to questions probing the initial, syntactically unlicensed interpretation (e.g., "Did Anna dress the baby?"). The manipulation of several factors expected to influence t...

Disfluencies include editing terms such as uh and um as well as repeats and revisions. Little is known about how disfluencies are processed, and there has been next to no research focused on the way that disfluencies affect structure-building operations during comprehension. We review major findings from both computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, and then we summarize the results of ...