Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational
knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Audience design refers to the situation in which speakers fashion their utterances so as to
cater to the needs of their addressees. In this article, a range of audience design effects are …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a window into how the brain is processing
language. Here, we propose a theory that argues that ERPs such as the N400 and P600 …

In five structural priming experiments, we investigated lexical boost effects in the production
of ditransitive sentences. Although the residual activation model of Pickering and Branigan …

There is accumulating evidence that readers continually evaluate the consistency,
congruence, and coherence of text by processes of validation. Validation is initiated …

Throughout an open filler-gap dependency, some features of the filler are actively
maintained in working-memory, while others decay and are retrieved at the gap. The current …

How can a visual environment shape our utterances? A variety of visual and conceptual
factors appear to affect sentence production, such as the visual cueing of patients or agents …

This study examined whether L1-Mandarin learners of L2-English use verb bias and
complementizer cues to process temporarily ambiguous English sentences the same way …

We examined whether the position of modifiers in English influences how words are
encoded and subsequently retrieved from memory. Compared with premodifiers …