Human infants develop language remarkably rapidly and without overt instruction. We argue
that the distinctive ontogenesis of child language arises from the interplay of three factors …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Grammatical constraints impose diverse requirements on the relations between words and
phrases in a sentence. Research on the online implementation of grammatical constraints …

This article presents three studies that investigate when syntactic constraints become
available during the processing of long-distance backwards pronominal dependencies …

Language processing research is changing in two ways that should make it more relevant to
the study of grammatical learning. First, grammatical phenomena are re-entering the …

Children have repeatedly been found to exhibit Principle B violations, with some reports that
these violations occur only with nonquantified antecedents. This quantificational asymmetry …

This dissertation uses the processing of anaphoric relations to probe how linguistic
information is encoded in and retrieved from memory during real-time sentence …

This article examines a puzzle pertaining to the distribution of covalued nominals in two
understudied Mayan languages, Chuj and Ch'ol. While Ch'ol behaves as expected with …

This thesis explores topics pertaining to the syntax and semantics of nominal expressions,
with a focus on definite, indefinite, demonstrative, and pronominal elements. The data are …

Anaphoric relations between pronouns and their antecedents are subject to a number of
different linguistic constraints, which exclude the possibility of coreference in specific …