Individual variation is ubiquitous and empirically observable in most phonological
behaviors, yet relatively few studies aim to capture the heterogeneity of language …

This study examines how individual pragmatic skills, and more specifically, empathy,
influences language processing when a temporary lexical ambiguity can be resolved via …

The present study investigates the interplay between proficiency and empathy in the
development of second language (L2) prosody by analyzing the perception and processing …

This dissertation is about implicit prosody, the prosodic structure that readers assign during
silent reading. The dissertation has several goals: determining which reading tasks are …

For almost two decades, phonologists, phoneticians and psycholinguists have devoted
attention to the value of prosodic information during silent reading. Until then information on …

This study investigates factors that influence the interpretation of ambiguous sentences
containing the word only. When only appears preverbally in simple SVO constructions, it can …

Do punctuation marks facilitate sentence readability? Tasks consisting of sentences with
syntactic ambiguity are suitable for experimental studies. In such studies the subjects deal …