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A “bag-of-arguments” mechanism for initial verb predictions

Wing-Yee ChowDepartment of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD20742, USA;Department of Linguistics, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, LondonWC1N 1PF, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cybelle SmithDepartment of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD20742, USA;Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL61820, USAView further author information
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Ellen LauDepartment of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD20742, USAView further author information
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Colin PhillipsDepartment of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD20742, USAView further author information
Pages 577-596 | Received 24 Nov 2014, Accepted 21 Jun 2015, Published online: 11 Sep 2015

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Wing-Yee Chow & Di Chen. (2020) Predicting (in)correctly: listeners rapidly use unexpected information to revise their predictions. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:9, pages 1149-1161.
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Chia-Hsuan Liao & Ellen Lau. (2020) Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation of prediction with complex events. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:9, pages 1162-1182.
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Masataka Yano. (2018) Predictive processing of syntactic information: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33:8, pages 1017-1031.
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Wing-Yee Chow, Ellen Lau, Suiping Wang & Colin Phillips. (2018) Wait a second! delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33:7, pages 803-828.
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Masataka Yano. (2018) Predictive processing of aspectual information: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33:6, pages 718-733.
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Wing-Yee Chow, Shota Momma, Cybelle Smith, Ellen Lau & Colin Phillips. (2016) Prediction as memory retrieval: timing and mechanisms. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31:5, pages 617-627.
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Gina R. Kuperberg. (2016) Separate streams or probabilistic inference? What the N400 can tell us about the comprehension of events. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31:5, pages 602-616.
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Albert E. Kim, Leif D. Oines & Les Sikos. (2016) Prediction during sentence comprehension is more than a sum of lexical associations: the role of event knowledge. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 31:5, pages 597-601.
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