Prior studies on event knowledge in sentence comprehension have shown that the aspect of
the main verb plays an important role in the processing of non-core semantic roles, such as …

Two experiments examine how grammatical verb aspect constrains our understanding of
events. According to linguistic theory, an event described in the perfect aspect (John had …

Psycholinguistic research, like much of cognitive science, is in the midst of a vigorous inquiry
into the role of predictive mechanisms (DeLong, Urbach, & Kutas, 2005; Dikker, Rabagliati …

When reading a text describing an everyday activity, comprehenders build a model of the
situation described that includes prior knowledge of the entities, locations, and sequences of …

The present ERP study assessed whether grammatical aspect is used as a cue in online
event comprehension, in particular when reading about events in which an object is visually …

We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate
coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed transfer-of-possession events as …

To understand language people form mental representations of described situations.
Linguistic cues are known to influence these representations. In the present study …

Second language (L2) learners experience challenges when word meanings differ across
L1 and L2, and often display crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in speech production. In contrast …

In a set of behavioral, eye tracking, and ERP experiments, this thesis explored when and
how object-state representation is established, maintained, and retrieved in language …

Linguistic predictions may be generated from and evaluated against a representation of
events and referents described in the discourse. Compatible with this idea, recent work …