Background: Theories of comprehension deficits in Broca's aphasia have largely been
based on the pattern of deficit found with movement constructions. However, some studies …

An eye-movement reading experiment investigated whether the ease with which pronouns
are processed is affected by the lexical frequency of their antecedent. Reading times …

This thesis focuses on the cross-linguistic differences between Italian and Spanish
regarding the pragmatic restrictions on the resolution of null and overt subject pronouns (NS …

Pronoun resolution has long been central to psycholinguistics, but research has mostly
focused on personal pronouns (“he”/“she”). However, much of linguistic reference is to …

Behavioral studies investigating the influence of the relative word frequency of antecedent
nouns on the processing of anaphoric pronouns have yielded contradictory results. While …

There are numerous studies demonstrating facilitated processing of cognates relative to
noncognates for bilinguals, providing evidence that bilingual lexical access is language …

High-frequency words are usually understood and produced faster than low-frequency
words. Although the effect of word frequency is a reliable phenomenon in many domains of …

A recent eye-tracking study reported a reverse effect of a noun's lexical frequency in the
context of the resolution of coreferring pronouns. Investigating the neurophysiological basis …

Pronoun interpretation is often described as relying on a comprehender's mental model of
discourse. For example, in some psycholinguistic accounts, interpreting pronouns involves a …

In a self-paced reading experiment, we investigated the processing of sluicing constructions
(“sluices”) whose antecedent contained a known garden-path structure in German. Results …