Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate significant language
impairments despite normal-range hearing and nonverbal IQ. Many of these children also …

Traditionally, acquisition of syntactic knowledge and the development of sentence
comprehension behaviors have been treated as separate disciplines. This article reviews a …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a
language, and yet little is known about how language learners comprehend or produce …

The core idea that we argued for in the target article was that grammatical processing in a
second language (L2) is fundamentally different from grammatical processing in one's native …

Purpose We aimed to outline the latent variables approach for measuring nonverbal
executive function (EF) skills in school-age children, and to examine the relationship …

This study investigates the real-time processing of wh-dependencies by advanced Greek-
speaking learners of English using a cross-modal picture priming task. Participants were …

It is hard to answer the question when the human race started speaking: was it 50,000,
150,000 or 250,000 years ago? And did humanoids start speaking immediately after they …

1. Introduction is chapter will present three widely used on-line sentence processing tasks
(word monitoring, self-paced reading/listening, cross-modal priming) and one new task (self …

Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …