Title: Top-down prediction in language comprehension: a handful of facts and a mystery
Abstract: Over the last thirty years, psycholinguists have converged on a model of language comprehension in which perceptual input (e.g., sounds) incrementally activates higher level representations (e.g., possible messages) resulting in predictions...
Title: Word Learning in the Adjectival Domain: Categorizing Subjective Adjectives
Abstract: The word learning process requires that children pair forms with meanings. Adjectives like easy and fun pose particular challenges as these words not only lack a visual referent, but are context-dependent (Kennedy & McNally 2005) and encode speaker...
