Eye movements to pictures of four objects on a screen were monitored as participants
followed a spoken instruction to move one of the objects, eg,“Pick up the beaker; now put it …

Scalar implicatures often incur a processing cost in sentence comprehension tasks. We
used a novel mouse-tracking technique in a sentence verification paradigm to test different …

A visual world experiment examined the time course for pragmatic inferences derived from
visual context and contrastive intonation contours. We used the construction It looks like an …

Meanings of basic expressions can be enriched by considering what the speaker could
have said, but chose not to, that is, the alternatives. We report three priming experiments that …

Researchers have long been puzzled by the challenge English passive constructions
present for language learners, with adult-like comprehension and production emerging only …

Results from 2 experiments support the view that, regardless of strength of contextual
expectation for utterance nonsalient (ironic) interpretation,(a) salience-based interpretations …

Reading comprehension at sentence level is a core component in the students'
comprehension development, but there is a lack of comprehension assessments at the …

Studies in theoretical linguistics argue that subject-verb agreement is more sensitive to
grammatical number, while pronoun-antecedent agreement is more sensitive to conceptual …

Consider the cartoon in Figure 8.1 by Adams (2009), which is an Optimal Innovation: it
includes a novel stimulus intended to further activate coded, salient meanings, so that both …

The dissertation argues against fundamental differences between first and second language
processing with regard to access to deep syntactic structures and phrase structure …