This article first describes Jacques Mehler's initial efforts to make psycholinguistics and, more generally, the cognitive sciences better known during his years in Paris. Two lines of research on sentence perception, that we conducted collaboration with Jacques, are then presented illustrate focus. In Seventies, perception was a central topic psycholinguistics, contrasting proposals syntactic ...

Connectionist psycholinguistics is an emerging approach to modeling empirical data on human language processing using connectionist computational architectures. For almost 20 years, connectionist models have increasingly been used to model empirical data across many areas of language processing. We critically review four key areas: speech processing, sentence processing, language production, an...

This brightly colored textbook is designed to be accessible to students with no prior exposure to linguistics or psycholinguistics. As an example of this consideration for first-timers, the author not only defines bolded terms in the glossary at the back of the book, but also includes wide margins where she defines bolded terms like “lexical entrainment” and “Whorf hypothesis.” The text begins ...

Psycholinguistics is the empirical and theoretical study of the mental faculty that underpins our consummate linguistic agility. This review takes a broad look at how the field has developed, from the turn of the 20th century through to the turn of the 21st. Since the linguistic revolution of the mid-1960s, the field has broadened to encompass a wide range of topics and disciplines. A selection...

The Cmabrigde Uinervtisy (Cambridge University) effect from the psycholinguistics literature has demonstrated a robust word processing mechanism in humans, where jumbled words (e.g. Cmabrigde / Cambridge) are recognized with little cost. Inspired by the findings from the Cmabrigde Uinervtisy effect, we propose a word recognition model based on a semi-character level recursive neural network (sc...

This paper introduces and summarizes the special issue on megastudies, crowdsourcing, and large datasets in psycholinguistics. We provide a brief historical overview and show how the papers in this issue have extended the field by compiling new databases and making important theoretical contributions. In addition, we discuss several studies that use text corpora to build distributional semantic...