This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order
preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order …

Over the last decade, there has been a slow but steady accumulation of psycholinguistic
research focusing on typologically diverse languages. In this review, we provide an …

A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test
hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects …

Children must necessarily process their input in order to learn it, yet the architecture of the
developing parsing system and how it interfaces with acquisition is unclear. In the current …

The current research investigated structural priming in Tagalog, a symmetrical voice
language containing rich verbal morphology that results in changes in mapping between …

Research has shown that when processing filler-gap dependencies, comprehenders do not
wait until they encounter all of the bottom-up information in the input. Instead, they use …

Although vocabulary depth (VD) is recognized as a crucial factor in reading comprehension,
the investigation of its role in reading comprehension remains insufficient. This study aimed …

Les effets de l'animéité et de la proéminence de l'agent dans le traitement linguistique et
cognitif sont bien établis dans la littérature. Toutefois, la mesure dans laquelle l'argument de …

A well-received generalization in Tagalog is that only the argument that is cross-referenced
by voice is eligible for A-bar extraction. However, recent work has shown that agents that are …

This study investigates two possible factors in the well-known subject preference in the
acquisition and processing of relative clauses (RCs):(i) an effect of similarity between …