The Dependency Locality Theory: A Distance-Based Theory of Linguistic Complexity

Abstract

A major issue in understanding how language is implemented in the brain involves understanding the use of language in language comprehension and production. How-ever, before we look to the brain to see what areas are associated with language processing phenomena, it is necessary to have good psychological theories of the relevant behavioral phenomena. Recent results have suggested that constructing an interpretation for a sentence involves the moment-by-moment integration of a variety of different information sources, constrained by the available computational resources