You can now download my 1993 CMU thesis in PDF format; see below.

Van Dyke, J. & Lewis, R. L. (2003). Distinguishing effects of structure and decay on attachment and repair: A retrieval interference theory of recovery from misanalyzed ambiguities. Journal of Memory and Language 49:285-413. [PDF]

Lewis, R. L. (2003). Computational Psycholinguistics. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillon (Nature Publishing Group). [PDF]

Lewis, R.L. (in preparation). Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Sentence Processing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 
Boland, J. E., Lewis, R. L., & Blodgett, A. (2002, submitted). Distinguishing Generation and Selection of Modifier Attachments: Implications for Lexicalized Parsing and Competition Models. [PDF].
 
Lewis, R. L. & Boland, J. E. (in revision). Reconsidering Lexical Sentence Processing.
 
Lewis, R. L. & Nakayama, M. (2002). Syntactic and positional similarity effects in the processing of Japanese embeddings. In Nakayama, M. (Ed.) Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R.L. (2001) Cognitive theory, Soar. In International Encylopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Pergamon (Elsevier Science). [PDF]
 
Nakayama, M., & Lewis, R. L. (2000). Similarity interference and scrambling in Japanese. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science 12:39­53. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R.L. (2000). Falsifying serial and parallel parsing models: Empirical conundrums and an overlooked paradigm. The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 29:241­248. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R.L. (1999). Cognitive modeling, symbolic. In Wilson, R. and Keil, F. (eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R.L. (1999). Accounting for the fine structure of syntactic working memory: Similarity-based interference as a unifying principle. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22:105-106 [PDF]
 
Lewis, R. L. (1999). Specifying architectures for language processing: Process, control, and memory in parsing and interpretation. In Crocker, M., Pickering, M., and Clifton, C. Jr., editors, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Cambridge University Press. [postscript]
 
Young, R.M. and Lewis, R.L. (1998). The Soar Cognitive Architecture and Human Working Memory. In Miyake, A. and Shah, P. (Eds), Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control. New York: Cambridge University Press. [PDF].
 
Lewis, R.L. (1998). Leaping off the garden path: Reanalysis and limited repair parsing. In Fodor, J.D. and Ferreira, F. (eds), Reanalysis in Sentence Processing. Boston: Kluwer Academic. [PDF'; hardcopy reprints also available; please email a request and include your address]
 
Lehman, J. F., Lewis, R. L., and Newell, A. (1998). Architectural influences on language comprehension. In Pylyshyn, Z., editor, Cognitive Architecture. Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
 
Lewis, R. L. (1996). Interference in short-term memory: The magical number two (or three) in sentence processing. The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 25:93-115. [postscript; hardcopy reprints also available; please email a request and include your address.]
 
Lewis, R. L. (1996). Architecture Matters: What Soar has to say about modularity. In Steier, D. and Mitchell, T., editors, Mind Matters: Contributions to Cognitive and Computer Science in Honor of Allen Newell. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. [postscript]
 
Vera, A. H. and Lewis, R. L. (1996). Dissociating performance from learning: An empirical evaluation of a computational model. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
 
Lewis, R. L. (1994). Task specification language, or theory of human memory? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(4):674-675.
 
Lewis, R. L. and Vera, A. H. (1994). Non-declarative learning in an interactive task. In CHI '94 Research Symposium.
 
Steier, D. M., Lewis, R. L., Lehman, J. F., and Zacherl, A. L. (1993). Combining multiple sources of knowledge in an integrated intelligent system. IEEE Expert, 8(3):35--44.
 
Vera, A. H., Lewis, R. L., and Lerch, F. J. (1993). Situated decision-making and recog-nition-based learning: Applying symbolic theories to interactive tasks. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R. L. (1993). An architecturally-based theory of sentence comprehension. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Lehman, J. F., Newell, A., Polk, T. A., and Lewis, R. L. (1993). The role of language in cognition: A computational inquiry. In Harman, G., editor, Conceptions of the Human Mind. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. [PDF]

Lewis, R. L. (1993). An Architecturally-based theory of Human Sentence Comprehension. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. [PDF] Also available as Computer Science Tech Report CMU-CS-93-226; send requests to reports@cs.cmu.edu
 
Lehman, J. F., Lewis, R. L., and Newell, A. (1991). Integrating knowledge sources in language comprehension. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 461--466. Republished in P.
S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R. L., Huffman, S. B., John, B. E., Laird, J. E., Lehman, J. F., Newell, A., Rosenbloom, P. S., Simon, T., and Tessler, S. G. (1990). Soar as a unified theory of cognition: Spring 1990. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1035--1042. Republished in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [PDF]
 
Lewis, R. L., Newell, A., and Polk, T. A. (1989). Toward a Soar theory of taking instructions for immediate reasoning tasks. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 514--521. Republished in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Inte-grated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. [PDF]
 
Polk, T. A., Newell, A., and Lewis, R. L. (1989). Toward a unified theory of immediate reasoning in Soar. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 506--513. Also in P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, and A. Newell, eds., The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.

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