Abstract This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research. We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion of monolingual/monocultural normality and its historical origins, stereotype native-speakerism, quest for testing people who fit specific profiles, implications policy urges scholars to match bilingual grou...

This work was supported by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, FCT grant IBB/CBME, LA, FEDER/POCI 2010, Vetenskapsrådet (8276), Hedlunds Stiftelse, and Stockholm County Council (ALF, FoUU). Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Karl Magnus Petersson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310...

The concerns of psycholinguists will look very familiar to people engaged in CL research. A major area of investigation in psycholinguistics is determining how a listener uses frequency and other experience-based information during on-line sentence understanding. This book gives computationalists a distinguished guide to the current issues in the field. It is very clear that psycholinguistics h...

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