Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Many syntactic theories posit a fundamental structural difference between intransitive verbs
with agentive subjects (unergative verbs) and those with theme subjects (unaccusative …

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and
the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence …

Verbs are central to sentence processing, as they encode argument structure (AS)
information, ie, information about the syntax and interpretation of the phrases accompanying …

Previous research has shown that comprehension of complex sentences involving wh-
movement (eg, object-relative clauses) elicits activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) …

Structural priming offers a powerful method for experimentally investigating the mental
representation of linguistic structure. We clarify the nature of our proposal, justify the …

In the psycholinguistic literature it has been proposed that readers and listeners often adopt
a “good-enough” processing strategy in which a “shallow” representation of an utterance …

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic
representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability …

We examined the auditory sentence processing of neurologically unimpaired listeners and
individuals with aphasia on canonical sentence structures in real-time using a visual-world …

Experimental research on argument structure has reported mixed results regarding the
processing of unaccusative and unergative predicates. Using eye tracking in the visual …