Since the publication of Clahsen and Felser's (2006) keynote article on grammatical
processing in language learners, the online study of sentence comprehension in adult …

Second language sentence processing is examined here in light of several monolingual
psycholinguistic models of parsing, as well as that of linguistic theories specifically adapted …

When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items
relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to …

Publisher Summary The main measurable components of reading eye movements are
fixation duration, regressions, and magnitude of saccades. For the sake of methodological …

Most research on language comprehension has focused on what we might consider the two
ends of the process. One tradition is concerned with the “precursors” to interpretation—how …

Effects of background speech on reading were examined by playing aloud different types of
background speech, while participants read long, syntactically complex and less complex …

This paper investigates how lexical processing difficulty affects second language (L2)
syntactic processing. In a self-paced reading experiment with 36 monolingual and 62 first …

A word's length in English is fundamental in determining whether readers fixate it, and how
long they spend processing it during reading. Chinese is unspaced, and most words are two …

The present study investigated how pragmatic information is integrated during L2 sentence
comprehension. We put forward that the differences often observed between L1 and L2 …

An eye-tracking paradigm was developed for use in audiology in order to enable online
analysis of the speech comprehension process. This paradigm should be useful in …