The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has
stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an …

The neuroanatomical bases of bilingualism have recently received intensive attention.
However, it is still a matter of debate how the brain structure changes due to bilingual …

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

A general fact about language is that subject relative clauses are easier to process than
object relative clauses. Recently, several self-paced reading studies have presented …

Object relatives (ORs) have been reported to cause heavier processing loads than subject
relatives (SRs) in both pre-and postnominal position (prenominai relatives: Miyamoto & …

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on
typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field …

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and
the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence …

There is considerable controversy on island constraints on wh-dependencies in the
psycholinguistic literature. One major point of contention is whether islands result from …

A major goal of psycholinguistics is to gain a better understanding of how syntactically
complex sentences are processed. Pursuit of this goal has frequently focused on the …

Subject relative (SR) clauses have a reliable processing advantage in VO languages like
English in which relative clauses (RCs) follow the head noun. The question is whether this is …