Experience with spoken language starts prenatally, as hearing becomes operational during
the second half of gestation. While maternal tissues filter out many aspects of speech, they …

Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data
analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on the same data set …

Communication has an ostensive-inferential nature and is also geared to search for the
maximal relevance, that is, to obtain the maximum cognitive effect in return for the smallest …

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-
scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical …

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have become a standard method in many areas of
cognitive research, including second-language research, over the last decade and a half …

This research describes the production of prosodic cues to mark information structure in
Bulgarian and German. It compares speech by native (L1) and second language (L2) …

To what extent, and under which circumstances, is it possible to reach the same level as a
native speaker when learning a second language? This dissertation addresses some …

Previous research on pronoun resolution has identified several individual factors that are
deemed to be important for resolving reference. In this paper, we argue that of these factors …

Current research on spoken language does not provide a consistent picture as to whether
prosody, the melody and rhythm of speech, conveys a specific meaning. Perception studies …

Previous research on pronoun resolution has identified several individual factors that are
deemed to be important for resolving reference. In this paper we will argue that of these …