Research examining a role for morphological awareness in first grade students' reading
comprehension is scarce, although it is a well-established predictor for students in mid-to …

In a series of sentence–picture verification studies we contrasted, for example,“… choose
the balloon with “… inflate the balloon” and “… the inflated balloon” to examine the degree …

The present ERP study assessed whether grammatical aspect is used as a cue in online
event comprehension, in particular when reading about events in which an object is visually …

This study investigates the role of non-linguistic biases in the obligatory (verb tenses) and
optional (discourse connectives) linguistic marking for inferring temporal relations at the …

The literature on political cartoons and narrative has revolved around the question of how
single-panel images can have narrative potential. This rests on the apparently erroneous …

The question of the roles of grammatical aspect and of lexical aspect for the inference of
temporal relations has richly been investigated from a theoretical point of view in various …

The choice of the novel as field of investigation of this research finds motivation not only in
the choice to point the focus of this study in the field of narratology, but also from the …

The digital breakthrough of the nineties has profoundly changed the way events are
recognized. Starting from EST (Event Segmentation Theory) elaborated by JM Zacks and his …

Mental events are central to everyday cognition, be it our continuous perception of the world,
recalling autobiographical memories, or imagining the future. Little is known about the fine …

The representational product of sentence comprehension is the result of the interplay
between episodic and semantic memory and our knowledge of the grammatical devices of …