The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during
incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other …

It has often been suggested that the role of Broca's region in sentence comprehension can
be explained with reference to general cognitive mechanisms (eg working memory …

Research on spoken languages has identified a “subject preference” processing strategy for
tackling input that is syntactically ambiguous as to whether a sentence-initial NP is a subject …

Linking is the theory that captures the mapping of the semantic roles of lexical arguments to
the syntactic functions of the phrases that realize them. At the sentence level, linking allows …

The preference of the human parser for interpreting syntactically ambiguous sentence-initial
arguments as the subject of a clause (ie subject preference) has been documented for …

A central component of sentence understanding is verb-argument interpretation,
determining how the referents in the sentence are related to the events or states expressed …

Previous studies of Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) word-order variations have
demonstrated the human processing system's tendency to interpret a sentence-initial (case-) …

We report an eye-tracking experiment that examined argument linking and the role of
prominence in Spanish sentence comprehension by testing the interplay between word …

Prominence is the hierarchical relation among arguments that allows us to understand 'Who
did what to whom'in a sentence. The present study aimed to provide evidence about the role …

We present an event-related potentials (ERP) study that addresses the question of how
pieces of information pertaining to semantic roles and event structure interact with each …