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Explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying sentence processing in this comprehensive lecture that examines how resource limitations affect our ability to understand complex linguistic structures. Delve into psycholinguistic research on working memory constraints and their impact on sentence comprehension, investigating why certain grammatical constructions are more difficult to process than others. Learn about experimental methodologies used to measure cognitive load during language processing, including reading time studies and neuroimaging techniques. Analyze theoretical frameworks that explain the relationship between syntactic complexity and processing difficulty, covering topics such as dependency locality theory and surprisal-based models. Examine cross-linguistic evidence for universal principles of sentence processing while considering how different languages handle complex structures. Discover how individual differences in working memory capacity influence comprehension abilities and explore implications for language learning, education, and computational modeling of human language processing.
