This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

We address two important questions about the relationship between theoretical linguistics
and psycholinguistics. First, do grammatical theories and language processing models …

We present an experimental investigation of the role of resumptive pronouns. We investigate
object extraction in WH-questions for a range of syntactic configurations (nonislands, weak …

VP‐ellipsis and sluicing are forms of ellipsis that can cross a sentence boundary. We
present a series of comprehension studies on these forms of ellipsis to elucidate their …

Accurately recognizing and resolving ambiguity is a hallmark of linguistic ability. English is a
language with scope ambiguities in doubly-quantified sentences like A shark ate every …

Many syntactic phenomena have received competing accounts, either in terms of formal
grammatical mechanisms, or in terms of independently motivated properties of language …

Quantifier words like each, every, all and three are among the most abstract words in
language. Unlike nouns, verbs and adjectives, the meanings of quantifiers are not related to …

The main proposal of this paper is that quantifier raising (QR) is not subject to QR-specific
locality or domain restrictions but that differences observed between overt and covert …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …

This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language
researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and …