This paper is intended as an introduction to syntax. Borrowing from Chomsky's Government
& Binding and Principles & Parameters frameworks (Chomsky, 1986, 1992, 1995), various …

Previous research has found that verb argument structure characteristics (such as the
number of participant roles in the situation described by the verb) can facilitate or hinder …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of argument-structure
complexity on the omission of auxiliary be verbs in a group of children with specific …

The processing of various attributes of verbs is crucial for sentence comprehension. Verb
attributes include the number of complements the verb selects, the number of different …

Purpose This study was conducted to examine the comparative effectiveness of 2 different
approaches, 1 domain-specific and the other domain-general, to language and attention …

Purpose The hypothesis that the linguistic deficit presented by children with specific
language impairment (SLI) is caused by limited cognitive resources (eg, S. Ellis Weismer & …

This article describes how we and others have exploited online methodology to investigate
normal and disordered language processing in adults. Online tasks can be used to measure …

This paper is primarily about sentence processing in neurologically intact subjects-but
carries with it the underlying message that though both grammatical and on-line analyses of …

Background Numerous studies have investigated the effects of word frequency (WF), age of
acquisition (AoA), and animacy on picture naming in volunteers and those with aphasia. But …

This research project evaluated a deficit observed in children with specific language
impairment (SLI) across multiple languages: limitations in the production of verbs and …