Planning to speak is a challenge for the brain, and the challenge varies between and within
languages. Yet, little is known about how neural processes react to these variable …

A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a
rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event …

Psycholinguistic theories are based on a very small set of unrepresentative languages, so it
is as yet unclear how typological variation shapes mechanisms supporting language use. In …

Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, eg, by
case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case …

Speakers' visual attention to events is guided by linguistic conceptualization of information in
spoken language production and in language-specific ways. Does production of language …

The voice system of Tagalog has been proposed to be symmetrical in the sense that there
are no morphologically unmarked voice forms. This stands in contrast to asymmetrical voice …

In recent years, the field of psycholinguistics has seen an increased focus on the study of
typologically diverse languages. Expanding cross-linguistic coverage is critical to tease …

One of the defining properties of human language is the abundance of potentially
unbounded dependencies between elements in a sentence. And yet, how speakers …

It has long been hypothesized that the linguistic structure of events, including event
participants and their relative prominence, draws on the non-linguistic nature of events and …