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 …

We studied the learnability of English filler-gap dependencies and the “island” constraints on
them by assessing the generalizations made by autoregressive (incremental) language …

On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical
('scrambled') structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [eg, Hyönä & …

This paper investigates the processing of long-distance filler-gap dependencies in
Japanese, a strongly head-final language. Two self-paced reading experiments and one …

Wh-dependencies are known to be formed rapidly in real-time comprehension. The parser
posits the location of gap sites in advance of the bottom-up evidence for missing …

In natural languages some syntactic structures are simpler than others. Syntactically
complex structures require further computation that is not required by syntactically simple …

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of
linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenomenon that has long been …

The field of psycholinguistics advertises its mentalistic commitments in its name. The field of
linguistics does not. Psycholinguistic research frequently involves ingenious experimental …

An eye-tracking experiment examined the processing of gender and number agreement in
the comprehension of subject–verb-adjective sentences in Spanish. We used complex …

An experimental investigation of quantifier scope in Russian SVO and OVS sentences, in
which the factors of word order, prosody, information structure, and indefinite form are …