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  1. STRUCTURALCOST: A controlled reading time dataset for modeling human sentence processing difficulty

    Oct 6, 2026Nina Nusbaumer, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Corentin Bel +3Computational Psycholinguistics

    LLF, CNRS, Université Paris Cité · COLT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Unicog, Neurospin, CEA +2

  2. Pseudowords as probes: Large Language Models show little of the sublexical sensitivity that governs human pseudoword processing

    Oct 6, 2026Jing Chen, Giulia Loca, Simona Amenta +1Language ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy · Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication – DISCo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

  3. A Systematic Analysis of the Predictive Power of LM Surprisal in Reading Chinese

    Oct 4, 2026Hongao Zhu, Muxiaoqiao Xu, Yikang Liu +4Language Model Scaling LawsLanguage Modeling

    Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego · School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University +3

  4. Compound interpretation is based on analogy

    Oct 1, 2026Tian Shen, Harald BaayenAnalogical ReasoningDistributional Semantics

    School of Foreign Languages, Northwest University, Xi’an, China · Department of Quantitative Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  5. Neural Language Models Learn the Contextual Distributions of Dependency Structures: a statistical learning theory to compositionality

    Sep 28, 2026Wang Bojun, Junjie Chen, Holly Jenkins +1Language ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  6. Modeling the Developmental Shift in Telicity Acquisition

    Sep 16, 2026Ellie Xia, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Alan Hezao KeChild Language AcquisitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    Michigan State University · University of South Carolina

  7. A Data-free Universal Prior over Syntactic Structures

    Sep 15, 2026Fermín Moscoso del Prado MartínInductive BiasComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  8. Psychosis involves a deficit of information compression in connected speech

    Sep 14, 2026Samuele Vallisa, Claudio Palominos, Rui He +6Computational PsycholinguisticsRepresentation Geometry in Language Models

    Grammar and Cognition Lab, Department of Translation & Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Department of Neurosciences, Health Sciences Institute, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. · Department of Psychiatry, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. +4

  9. Replicating a Disjoint-Set Union Experiment over Various Notions of Micro Units to assess Translation Effort

    Sep 7, 2026Michael CarlComputational Psycholinguistics

    CRITT, Kent State University

  10. Factors Influencing the Emergence of Dependency Length Minimization in Neural Agent Simulations

    Sep 5, 2026Yuqing Zhang, Tessa Verhoef, Gertjan van Noord +1Computational Psycholinguistics

    Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands · Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  11. Language Proficiency Assessment from Eye Movements in Naturalistic Passage Reading

    Aug 31, 2026Shachar Frenkel, Ido Falah, Omer Shubi +1Eye TrackingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  12. Natural Language Processing Psychometrics

    Aug 7, 2026Edoardo Sebastiano De Duro, Emma Franchino, Massimo StellaClinical Outcome PredictionPsychometric Validation

    CogNoscoLab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy

  13. Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders

    Aug 7, 2026Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg, Sebastian PadóVision-Language ModelsComputational Psycholinguistics

    Computational Linguistics · University of Stuttgart, Germany · Linguistics

  14. STRIVE: Probing Reasoning Limits in Graded Plausibility Generation and Evaluation

    Aug 5, 2026Bhiman Kumar Baghel, Anna Chrabaszcz, Tessa Warren +3LLM EvaluationControllable Text Generation

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

  15. Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)

    Jul 23, 2026Ryan CotterellCognitive ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    ETH Zürich

  16. surprisal is Not a Theory

    Jul 22, 2026Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Aniello De Santo, Morgan Grobol +2Language ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    aUniversity at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA · bUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA · cUniversité Paris Nanterre, Paris, France +1

  17. Computational models of pragmatic reasoning with flexible generation of meaning and expression alternatives

    Jul 20, 2026Polina Tsvilodub, Fausto Carcassi, Michael FrankeComputational Cognitive ModelingPragmatic Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Tübingen · University of Amsterdam

  18. Decoding EEG Signals to Explore Next-Word Predictability in the Human Brain

    Jul 17, 2026Boi Mai Quach, Binh T. Nguyen, Cathal Gurrin +1Computational Psycholinguistics

    School of Computing, ML-Labs, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland · VNUHCM – University of Science

  19. Contextual Semantic Relevance Tracks fMRI BOLD Responses During Naturalistic Speech Comprehension

    Jul 17, 2026Kun Sun, Rong WangComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Linguistics, Tongji University · Department of Computational Linguistics, Tuebingen University

  20. Early Language Learning via Spreading Activation and Category Exploration in Complex Networks

    Jul 7, 2026Salvatore CitraroChild Language AcquisitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” (ISTI) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy · National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy

  21. Contextual Semantic Relevance and Word Surprisal Predict N400 and P600 Dynamics During Naturalistic Reading

    Jul 5, 2026Kun Sun, Rong WangComputational PsycholinguisticsNeural Encoding

    Tongji University · University of Tuebingen

  22. The Grammar Does the Work: Functional vs. Lexical Dependency Length Minimization Across Universal Dependencies

    Jul 2, 2026Kim GerdesComputational Psycholinguistics

    LISN, Qatent, STL · Université Paris-Saclay, LISN (CNRS) Orsay, France

  23. Linguistic Distancing on Social Media: Indicators of Emotion Regulation Across Age Groups

    Jun 29, 2026Daniela Teodorescu, Saif M. Mohammad, Alona FysheComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta · National Research Council Canada · Department of Psychology, University of Alberta

  24. Phonological Perception of Sign Language Models

    Jun 27, 2026Kayo Yin, Jessica Carter, Alex Xijie Lu +1Sign Language RecognitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    University of California, Berkeley · Johns Hopkins University · Microsoft Research

  25. Developmental approach reveals the statistical learning of Neural Language Models: Transformers generalize from the most abstract statistical patterns

    Jun 25, 2026Wang Bojun, Holly Jenkins, Elizabeth WonnacottAutoregressive Language ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Education, University of Oxford

  26. Syntactic Belief Update as the Driver of Garden Path Processing Difficulty

    Jun 25, 2026Alan Zhou, Miloš Stanojević, John T. HaleComputational Psycholinguistics

    Johns Hopkins University · University College London

  27. Energy-Based Transformers as Predictors of Reading Difficulty

    Jun 22, 2026Jakub Dotlacil, Ece TakmazEnergy-Based ModelsComputational Psycholinguistics

    Utrecht University

  28. Modeling semantic association in self-paced reading with language model embeddings

    Jun 5, 2026Sara Møller Østergaard, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Afra Alishahi +1Sentence EmbeddingsText Embedding Evaluation

    Department of Computational Cognitive Science, Tilburg University · Center for Humanities Computing, Aarhus University

  29. Trajectory Dynamics in Language Model Hidden States Predict Human Processing Costs Beyond Surprisal

    Jun 3, 2026Elan BarenholtzComputational Psycholinguistics

    Machine Perception & Cognitive Robotics Laboratory Department of Psychology / Center for Complex Systems Florida Atlantic University

  30. Noisy memory encoding explains negative polarity illusions

    Jun 3, 2026Yuhan Zhang, Edward GibsonComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Linguistics, Stanford University · BIO-X Interdisciplinary Biosciences Institute, Stanford University · Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  31. Rethinking the Idiomaticity Decomposability Hypothesis: Evidence from Distributional Learning

    Jun 2, 2026Maggie Mi, Golzar Atefi, Atsuki Yamaguchi +3Computational Psycholinguistics

    University of Sheffield · Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) · University of Exeter +1

  32. Eyettention II: A Dual-Sequence Architecture for Modeling Fixation Location, Within-Word Landing Position, and Fixation Duration in Reading

    Jun 1, 2026Shuwen Deng, Cui Ding, David R. Reich +2Eye TrackingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. · Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. · Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

  33. Supervised Semantic Differential for Cross-Cultural Concept Analysis: A Case Study of Human Affect

    May 27, 2026Jan Sikora, Paweł Lenartowicz, Hubert PlisieckiCross-Lingual Representation AlignmentComputational Psycholinguistics

    University of Warsaw · Society for Open Science Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University · IDEAS Research Institute

  34. Chinese sensorimotor and embodiment norms for 3,000 lexicalized concepts

    May 21, 2026Jing Chen, Gábor Parti, Yin Zhong +2Distributional SemanticsComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca · Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Center for Language Education, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  35. In Silico Modeling of the RAMPHO Buffer: Dissociating Informational and Energetic Masking via Phonetic Entropy in Deep Neural Networks

    May 21, 2026Stefan BleeckSpeech ProcessingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton

  36. Collocational bootstrapping: A hypothesis about the learning of subject-verb agreement in humans and neural networks

    May 19, 2026Claire Hobbs, R. Thomas McCoyChild Language AcquisitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    Cognitive Science Program Yale University · Dept. of Linguistics & Wu Tsai Institute Yale University

  37. Readers make targeted regressions to plausible errors in reanalysis of "noisy-channel garden-path" sentences

    May 18, 2026Thomas Hikaru Clark, Roger Levy, Edward GibsonLanguage ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA, USA

  38. A Scalable Tool for Measuring Manner and Result Verbs in Developmental Language Research

    May 15, 2026Divyesh Pratap Singh, Dakshesh Gusain, Federica Bulgarelli +4Text ClassificationComputational Psycholinguistics

    University at Buffalo · Nanyang Technological University · The University of Texas at Austin

  39. Why are language models less surprised than humans? Testing the Parse Multiplicity Mismatch Hypothesis

    May 14, 2026William Timkey, Brian Dillon, Tal LinzenLanguage ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Linguistics, New York University, 10 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10003, USA · Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 650 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002, USA · Center for Data Science, New York University, 60 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA

  40. Greedy or not, here I come: Language production under vocabulary constraints in humans and resource-rational models

    May 14, 2026Thomas Hikaru Clark, Sihan Chen, Laura NicolaeCognitive ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT · Department of Economics, Harvard University

  41. Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition

    May 12, 2026Francesca Padovani, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych +1Child Language AcquisitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen

  42. A Computational Operationalisation of Competing Maturational Theories of Syntactic Development via Statistical Grammar Induction

    May 8, 2026Mila Marcheva, Suchir Salhan, Weiwei SunChild Language AcquisitionComputational Psycholinguistics

    Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge

  43. The Frequency Confound in Language-Model Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty

    May 7, 2026Omar Momen, Sina ZarrießLanguage ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    CRC 1646 – Linguistic Creativity in Communication · Bielefeld University, Germany

  44. Assessing Cognitive Effort in L2 Idiomatic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Dataset

    May 6, 2026Eduardo Santos, Juliana Carvalho, César Rennó-CostaEye TrackingComputational Psycholinguistics

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

  45. Rational Communication Shapes Morphological Composition

    May 5, 2026Fengyuan Yang, Yongqian Peng, Yuxi Ma +2Computational Psycholinguistics

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University · School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University · Yuanpei College, Peking University +2

  46. The grip of grammar on meaning uncertainty: cross-linguistic evidence, neural correlates, and clinical relevance

    May 2, 2026Rui He, Claudio Palominos, Samuele Vallisa +16Computational Psycholinguistics

    Grammar and Cognition Lab, Department of Translation & Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. · School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. · Department of Neurology Sant Pau Memory Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. +18

  47. Surprisal Minimisation over Goal-directed Alternatives Predicts Production Choice in Dialogue

    May 1, 2026Tom Utting, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella SinclairComputational Psycholinguistics

    University of Aberdeen · University College London

  48. On the Proper Treatment of Units in Surprisal Theory

    Apr 30, 2026Samuel Kiegeland, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Tim Vieira +1Computational Psycholinguistics

    ETH Zürich · CHI-FRO · University of Copenhagen

  49. Syntactically-guided Information Maintenance in Sentence Comprehension

    Apr 30, 2026Shinnosuke Isono, Kohei KajikawaComputational Psycholinguistics

    NINJAL · Georgetown University

  50. Modeling Human-Like Color Naming Behavior in Context

    Apr 28, 2026Yuqing Zhang, Ecesu Ürker, Tessa Verhoef +2Computational PsycholinguisticsEmergent Communication

    Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen · Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University +1

  51. Fine-Grained Analysis of Shared Syntactic Mechanisms in Language Models

    Apr 24, 2026Ryoma Kumon, Hitomi YanakaMechanistic InterpretabilityLanguage Modeling

    1The University of Tokyo · 2RIKEN · 3Tohoku University

  52. The "Small World of Words" German Free-Association Norms

    Apr 21, 2026Samuel Aeschbach, Rui Mata, Kaidi Lõo +2Computational Psycholinguistics

    Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland · Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia · Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia +1

  53. Probing for Reading Times

    Apr 20, 2026Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re +4Computational PsycholinguisticsLanguage Model Probing

    ETH Zürich · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago · University College London

  54. Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing

    Apr 20, 2026Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki +1Language ModelingComputational Psycholinguistics

    MBZUAI · Tohoku University · UC San Diego +2

  55. An Existence Proof for Neural Language Models That Can Explain Garden-Path Effects via Surprisal

    Apr 20, 2026Ryo Yoshida, Shinnosuke Isono, Taiga Someya +2Computational Psycholinguistics

    ♠The University of Tokyo · ♡NINJAL · ♢NII LLMC +1

  56. LLM surprisal is necessary but not sufficient to capture English garden-path effects: Evidence from joint latent modeling of reading paradigms

    Feb 4, 2026Dario Paape, Tal Linzen, Shravan VasishthLatent Variable ModelsCognitive Modeling

    Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam · Department Linguistik, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24–25, D-14476, Germany. · Center for Data Science/Department of Linguistics, New York University

  57. Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference

    Nov 18, 2025Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang, Cory ShainBayesian InferenceComputational Psycholinguistics

    Margaret Jacks1DepartmentHall, Buildingof Linguistics,460 Rm.Stanford127, Stanford,UniversityCA ,94305-2150

  58. When Context Misleads: Surprisal, Energy and Attention Entropy as Metrics of Coherence Illusions in LLMs

    Date pendingEce Takmaz, Nitin Kumar, Li Kloostra +1LLM InterpretabilityComputational Psycholinguistics

    Utrecht University