Once, sentence processing research set aside prosody in order to focus on syntactic and semantic processing. Experimental sentences were mostly presented visually, often without prosodic markers such as commas. Now that we have made some progress by this ‘divide and conquer’ approach, and now that the technology for working on speech has improved, it may be time to integrate prosody into proces...

This article reviews studies that have used experimental methods from psycholinguistics to address questions about the representation of sentences involving ellipsis. Accounts of the structure of ellipsis can be classified based on three choice points in a decision tree. First: does the identity constraint between antecedents and ellipsis sites apply to syntactic or semantic representations? Se...

Connectionist approaches to language have been, and still are, highly controversial. Some have argued that natural language processing from phonology to semantics can be understood in connectionist terms; others have argued that no aspects of natural language can be captured by connectionist methods. And the controversy is particularly heated because of the revisionist claims of some connection...

Marten van Schijndel (The Ohio State University) & Kathleen C. Fraser (University of Toronto) [email protected] Introduction Accurate and non-invasive screening for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is critical to allow patients time to plan for the future and access early treatment. The present work studies the effectiveness of well-known psycholinguistic measures at detecting likely cases of AD fro...