Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more …

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 …

Sentence production requires map** preverbal messages onto linguistic structures.
Because sentences are normally built incrementally, the information encoded in a sentence …

Recent years have seen a small but growing body of psycholinguistic research focused on
typologically diverse languages. This represents an important development for the field …

Planning to speak is a challenge for the brain, and the challenge varies between and within
languages. Yet, little is known about how neural processes react to these variable …

A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

The scope of planning during sentence formulation is known to be flexible, as it can be
influenced by speakers' communicative goals and language production pressures (among …

Taking part in a psycholinguistic study typically involves going to a university, meeting a
researcher and completing a computer task in a quiet laboratory cubicle under the …

We report on two experiments that investigated the acquisition of the Tagalog symmetrical
voice system, a typologically rare feature of Western Austronesian languages in which there …

It has long been hypothesized that the linguistic structure of events, including event
participants and their relative prominence, draws on the non-linguistic nature of events and …