Our first foray into open access publishing with Frontiers is now complete. Wow — that was fast! Our paper on constraints on anaphora in parsing, led by Wing Yee Chow and Shevaun Lewis, was submitted at the start of April, went through 2 rounds of review and revision, and the final version was published on-line at the end of June. 78 days from start to finish. For a typical linguistics journal, achieving that in 78 weeks would be a feat. Oh, and what is the paper about? It’s about 5 experiments on the effects of Binding Condition B on anaphora resolution in parsing. Short version: people are really good at this, better than we expected. We found almost no evidence that comprehenders considered antecedents that were ruled out by Condition B.

 

Wing Yee Chow, Ellen Lau, Suiping Wang, Colin Phillips: Wait a second! Delayed impact of argument roles on on-line verb prediction. In: Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 2018.