Sentence comprehension: The integration of habits and rules. David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. 455.

By N. Chipere. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002

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Interference effects from grammatically unavailable constituents during sentence processing. (2007, background): “One possibility stems from the coordination between a “fast and frugal” heuristic system with the output of more rigorous syntactic algorithms, as recently proposed by a number of researchers ( Bever & Townsend, 2001; Ferreira, 2003).”
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension (2007, background): “Instead, it appears that comprehenders of English have a heuristic for understanding basic declarative sentences: They assume that the first noun phrase (NP) is the agent of the action, and the next NP is the entity affected by the action (Bever 1970; Townsend & Bever 2001).”
Reverse Island Effects and the Backward Search for a Licensor in Multiple Wh-Questions (2011, background): “Second, much recent research on real-time sentence processing has revealed specific scenarios in which the parser does not follow syntactic rules strictly, at least not initially (Townsend & Bever 2001; Ferreira, Ferraro & Bailey 2002; Ferreira & Patson 2007; Phillips, Wagers & Lau 2011).”
Processing reflexives in a second language: The timing of structural and discourse-level constraints (2011, background): “…with processing models that assume the existence of multiple processing pathways potentially operating in parallel (e.g., Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro, 2002; Townsend & Bever, 2001), and the hypothesis that structural processing is compromised in nonnative comprehension (Clahsen & Felser, 2006).”
Simultaneous Plan Recognition and Monitoring (SPRAM) for Robot Assistants (2013, background): “[17] found that humans tend to pattern daily actions into sequences which they repeat at particular times in particular places.”
Continuity and shallow structures in language processing (2006, methodology): “Contrary to Townsend and Bever (2001), we do not assume, for example, that the initial semantic analysis (or shallow processing, in our terms) normally precedes full parsing.”
Who did what to whom? The neural basis of argument hierarchies during language comprehension (2005, background): “For example, while a position-based assignment of participant roles (bActor-before-UndergoerQ in active and bUndergoer-before-ActorQ in passive structures) yields success in the vast majority of English sentences (Townsend and Bever, 2001), languages such as German, Russian and Japanese rely less he”