This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal
reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus …

Recent research using eye-tracking typically relies on constrained visual contexts in
particular goal-oriented contexts, viewing a small array of objects on a computer screen and …

The present study investigates how readers' representations of narratives are constrained by
three sources of temporal information; grammatical aspect, lexical aspect, and the duration …

Event segmentation tests have shown substantial overlaps in how adults recognize starts
and endpoints as events unfold. However, far less is known about what role different …

In a series of sentence–picture verification studies we contrasted, for example,“… choose
the balloon with “… inflate the balloon” and “… the inflated balloon” to examine the degree …

The interaction between language and perception networks in the brain can hold the key to
the biological bases of language evolution. In language, every sentence is built around a …

Aspect expresses information about how events unfold in time. In English, imperfective
aspect is known to widen the temporal scope of the event described, but little is known about …

Two studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between the production and
comprehension of Aktionsarten (verbally expressed event structure, also called lexical …

The acquisition of aspect in L2 is influenced by the properties of the lexical-aspectual class,
coercion at the syntactic-pragmatic interface and grounding information (foreground and …

This dissertation provides a language processing perspective on the study of second
language acquisition (SLA) of tense and aspect. Of special interest are the universal vis-à …