This thesis provides a novel, unified account of two superficially distinct phenomena:
nominal ellipsis and discontinuous DPs. Nominal ellipsis 1, first discussed in Ross (1967) …

Two approaches characterize the current state of research in sentence processing. Both
approaches aim to arrive at a well-grounded analysis of relevant constraints the construction …

Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (eg, red butterfly) as contrastive
was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent …

Two eye-tracking experiments in the Visual World paradigm compared how monolingual
Russian (Experiment 1) and heritage Russian–English bilingual (Experiment 2) listeners …

This study examines the contribution of constituent order, prosody, and information structure
to the perception of word-level prominence in Russian, a free word order language …

Introduction In this paper, we studied how native (L1) speakers of Russian and speakers of
Mandarin Chinese learning Russian as a foreign language (L2) process Russian sentences …

This study investigates the acquisition of sentence focus in Russian by adult English-
Russian bilinguals, while paying special attention to the relative contribution of constituent …

The central issue in this thesis is configurationality, which has broadly been defined in terms
of a division of the world's languages based on their core syntactic structure. Specifically …

Within theoretical linguistics, there is an ongoing debate as to whether WH-movement and
scrambling are two sides of the same coin or whether they are distinct phenomena. 1 …

Production and perception experiments with native speakers of Russian, a free word order
language, show that prosody and change in word order are used to mark discourse …