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The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Although there is a sizeable body of literature on sentence comprehension and processing both in healthy and disordered language users, …
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The neurobiology of sentence production: A narrative review and meta-analysis

Sentence superiority in the reading brain

When a sequence of written words is briefly presented and participants are asked to identify just one word at a post-cued location, …
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Sentence superiority in the reading brain

Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

When human and non-human animals learn sequences, they manage to implicitly extract statistical regularities through associative …
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Simple questions on simple associations: regularity extraction in non-human primates

Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish

Amidst social changes in gendered language use, there is pushback from institutions such as the Spanish Royal Academy, which claims …
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Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish

Parallel word reading revealed by fixation-related brain potentials

During reading, the brain is confronted with many relevant objects at once. But does lexical processing occur for multiple words …
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Parallel word reading revealed by fixation-related brain potentials

The Neurobiology of Syntax

The literature regarding the neural basis of syntax is a varied landscape of mutually incompatible descriptions of how and where …
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The Neurobiology of Syntax

The prosody of French ambiguous multiple negative sentences

While it has long been assumed that prosody can help resolve syntactic and semantic ambiguities, empirical evidence has shown that the …
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The prosody of French ambiguous multiple negative sentences

Positional cueing, string location variability, and letter-in-string identification

In three Experiments we measured accuracy in identifying a single letter among a string of five briefly presented consonants followed …
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Positional cueing, string location variability, and letter-in-string identification

Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency

Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we …
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Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency

Parafoveal-on-foveal repetition effects in sentence reading: A co-registered eye-tracking and electroencephalogram study

When reading, can the next word in the sentence (word n + 1) influence how you read the word you are currently looking at (word n)? …
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Parafoveal-on-foveal repetition effects in sentence reading: A co-registered eye-tracking and electroencephalogram study

Visual processing of verb-second (V2) word order in second language acquisition: ERP Evidence from French-Swedish successive bilinguals

This paper lays out a pilot study conducted to examine the roles of Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) and cognitive resources on …
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Visual processing of verb-second (V2) word order in second language acquisition: ERP Evidence from French-Swedish successive bilinguals

English negative concord and double negation: The division of labor between syntax and pragmatics

Recent research demonstrates that prototypical negative concord (NC) languages allow double negation (DN) (Espinal & Prieto 2011; …
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French negative concord and discord: An experimental investigation of contextual and prosodic disambiguation

Evidence that DN readings arise in solid NC languages more than previously thought (Déprez et al. 2015) underscore the importance of …
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The Roles of Context and Prosody in Disambiguating Utterances with Two Negative Expressions in French

This paper experimentally investigates the roles of context and prosody in French in disambiguating simple transitive sentences with …
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