Event boundaries stretched and compressed by aspect: Temporal segmentation in a first and a second language

N Vanek, H Zhang - Language Learning, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Syntactic engagement of new words: The garden-path method applied to track sensitivity to structural ambiguity

V García-Castro, N Vanek - Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2024 - Elsevier
This article proposes an innovative approach to examining garden-path (GP) effects in
sentence processing. It applies GP effects as a method to a new domain, specifically to …

Matched or moved? Asymmetry in high-and low-level visual processing of motion events

X Fu, N Vanek, L Roberts - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Consensus on the extent to which cross-linguistic differences affect event cognition is
currently absent. This is partly because cognitive influences of language have rarely been …

First Language Lexical Attrition in a First Language Setting: A Multi-Measure Approach Testing Teachers of English

Y Ma, N Vanek - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024 - Springer
Research on first language (L1) attrition typically focuses on immigrant populations in their
second language (L2) environment, yet we know comparably little about L1 attrition in the L1 …

Rate of speech affects the comprehension of pronouns in children with developmental language disorder

N Abbott, I Nip, T Love - Frontiers in language sciences, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study examined whether children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have
knowledge of binding principles (ie, linking pronouns to their structurally licensed …

The Italian Debate on Inclusive Language and Its Difficult Reception of Linguistic Relativity

F Batisti - Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2024 - rifl.unical.it
Italy has recently witnessed a heated debate about the proposal of modifying certain aspects
of lexicon, morphology, and phonetics of the Italian language. These modifications were …

[PDF][PDF] Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

V García-Castro, N Vanek - researchgate.net
This article proposes an innovative approach to examining garden-path (GP) effects in
sentence processing. It applies GP effects as a method to a new domain, specifically to …