Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

" A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times
bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it …

The authors studied the operation of working memory in language comprehension by
examining the reading of complex sentences. Reading time and comprehension accuracy in …

Models of language production must account for how speakers select referential
expressions, a process that is complicated by the range of options available to speakers (eg …

This work investigates the processing of Italian subject pronouns, both the null and the overt
pronoun, in intra-sentential anaphora. A processing hypothesis is proposed, the Position of …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

This thesis deals with gradience in grammar, ie, with the fact that some linguistic structures
are not fully acceptable or unacceptable, but receive gradient linguistic judgments. The …

Grammatical agreement flags the parts of sentences that belong together regardless of
whether the parts appear together. In English, the major agreement controller is the …

Background The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of temporal
and spatial gait measurements over a one-week period as measured using an instrumented …

In 2 experiments, eye movements were monitored as participants followed instructions
containing temporary syntactic ambiguities (eg,“Pour the egg in the bowl over the flour”). The …