John C. Trueswell

TL;DR: The authors found that readers experienced equal difficulty with temporarily ambiguous reduced relatives clauses when the first noun was animate and when it was inanimate and thus an unlikely Agent (e.g., "The evidence examined...").

TL;DR: Results from a new method for studying children's moment-by-moment language processing abilities, in which a head-mounted eye-tracking system was used to monitor eye movements as participants responded to spoken instructions, revealed systematic differences in how children and adults process spoken language.

TL;DR: The authors found that syntactic misanalysis effects in sentence complements (e.g., "The student forgot the solution was" ) occurred at the verb in the complement (i.e., was) for matrix verbs typically used with noun phrase complements, but not for verbs usually used with sentence complementments.

TL;DR: This work defends the following three hypotheses: that left inferior frontal gyrus is part of a network of frontal lobe subsystems that are generally responsible for the detection and resolution of incompatible stimulus representations; the role of LIFG in sentence comprehension is to implement reanalysis in the face of misinterpretation; and individual differences in cognitive control abilities in nonsyntactic tasks predict correlated variation in sentence-processing abilities pertaining to the recovery from misinterpretation.

TL;DR: The authors showed that although addressees cannot completely ignore information in privileged ground, common ground and perspective each have immediate effects on reference resolution, showing an ability to use the speaker's perspective.