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 …

Languages differ in how they mark the dependencies between verbs and arguments, eg, by
case. An eye tracking and EEG picture description study examined the influence of case …

Psycholinguistic theories are based on a very small set of unrepresentative languages, so it
is as yet unclear how typological variation shapes mechanisms supporting language use. In …

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 …

Human experience and communication are centred on events, and event apprehension is a
rapid process that draws on the visual perception and immediate categorization of event …

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 …

The notion of advance planning of sentence intonation is grounded in the positive
correlation between the sentence-initial intonation peaks and sentence duration. This study …

Speakers' visual attention to events is guided by linguistic conceptualization of information in
spoken language production and in language-specific ways. Does production of language …

The voice system of Tagalog has been proposed to be symmetrical in the sense that there
are no morphologically unmarked voice forms. This stands in contrast to asymmetrical voice …

To investigate the role of verbs in sentence production, the experiment reported here
employed a simple sentence elicitation technique based on separate elicitor images for the …