Language processing is a trait of human species. The knowledge about its neurobiological
basis has been increased considerably over the past decades. Different brain regions in the …

This article provides a selective overview of recent event-related brain potential (ERP)
studies in L2 morpho-syntax, demonstrating that the ERP evidence supporting the critical …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

The purpose of this study was to examine the development of reading prosody and its
impact on later reading skills. Suprasegmental features of oral reading were measured for …

Prosodic, or expressive, reading is considered to be one of the essential features of the
achievement of reading fluency. The purpose of this study was to determine (a) the degree …

Fourteen native speakers of German heard normal sentences, sentences which were either
lacking dynamic pitch variation (flattened speech), or comprised of intonation contour …

Erst seit den beginnenden 1980er Jahren befasst sich die Sprachwissenschaft mit der
Schrift als autonomem Teilsystem des Sprachsystems. Die Interpunktion wurde in die in …

The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of
contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. In The Boundaries of …

Sensitivity to prosodic cues might be used to constrain lexical search. Indeed, the prosodic
organization of speech is such that words are invariably aligned with phrasal prosodic …

Neither music nor spoken language form uniform auditory streams, rather, they are
structured into phrases. For the perception of such structures, the detection of phrase …