language processing

Speaker-specific cues influence semantic disambiguation

Addressees use information from specific speakers’ previous discourse to make predictions about incoming linguistic material and to restrict the choice of potential interpretations. In this way, speaker specificity has been shown to be an influential …

Effects of disfluencies on speech processing

Do speaker-specific cues influence ambiguous word interpretation?

Language knowledge predicts 3--6 year-old mono- and bilingual children’s prounoun processing