Browsing BCBL by Author "Mancini, Simona"
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Addressee Identity and Morphosyntactic Processing in Basque Allocutive Agreement
Wolpert, Max; Mancini, Simona; Caffarra, Sendy (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)Information about interlocutor identity is pragmatic in nature and has traditionally been distinguished from explicitly coded linguistic information, including mophosyntax. Study of speaker identity in language processing ... -
Agreement and illusion of disagreement: An ERP study on Basque
Mancini, Simona; Massol, Stephanie; Duñabeitia, Jon A.; Carreiras, Manuel; Molinaro, Nicola (Cortex, 2019)Agreement is a syntactic relation involving a controller (e.g., a noun) and a target with matching inflectional morphology (e.g., a verb). Across languages, electrophysiological studies consistently report that the presence ... -
Agreement attraction in Serbian: decomposing markedness
Ristić, Bojana; Molinaro, Nicola; Mancini, Simona (The Mental Lexicon, 2016)Asymmetric number attraction effects have been typically explained via a privative markedness account: plural nouns are more marked than singular ones and thus stronger attractors. However, this account does not explain ... -
Disentangling meaning in the brain: Left temporal involvement in agreement processing
Mancini, Simona; Quiñones, Ileana; Molinaro, Nicola; Hernandez-Cabrera, Juan A.; Carreiras, Manuel (Cortex, 2017)Sentence comprehension is successfully accomplished by means of a form-to-meaning mapping procedure that relies on the extraction of morphosyntactic information from the input and its mapping to higher-level semantic–discourse ... -
Finding identity in the midst of ambiguity: case and number disambiguation in Basque
Ristic, Bojana; Mancini, Simona; Molinaro, Nicola (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2020)Restrictive contextual information has been found to bias syntactic disambiguation, when only one alternative leads to a meaningful interpretation. The current study tests whether disambiguation can be influenced by ... -
Maintenance cost in the processing of subject-verb dependencies
Ristic, Bojana; Mancini, Simona; Molinaro, Nicola; Staub, Adrian (APA American Psychological Association, 2022)Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject–verb ... -
Physiology of Language
Mancini, Simona (Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2016)Comprehending and producing linguistic utterances relies on complex phonological, syntactic, and semantic representations that we incrementally and unconsciously build as the message unfolds in time. Behind these cognitive ... -
Processing argument structure complexity in Basque-Spanish bilinguals
Heinzova, Pavlina; Carreiras, Manuel; Mancini, Simona (Taylor & Francis, 2023)Previous research on argument structure (AS) has shown that verb processing costs scale with the number of arguments and as a result of non-canonical thematic mapping. The Basque language has unique AS: Basque unergatives ... -
The Neurolinguistics of the Second Language Morphological System: The Role of Grammar-Related and Speaker-Related Factors
Biondo, Nicoletta; Molinaro, Nicola; Mancini, Simona (Taylor & Francis, 2023)This chapter provides an overview of the neural correlates related to second language morphological processing, by integrating recent empirical evidence coming from event-related potentials, functional magnetic resonance ... -
The Processing of Spanish Article– Noun Gender Agreement by Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers
Molnar, Monika; Alemán Bañón, José; Mancini, Simona; Caffarra, Sendy (Language and Speech, 2021)We assessed monolingual Spanish and bilingual Spanish-Basque toddlers’ sensitivity to gender agreement in correct vs. incorrect Spanish noun phrases (definite article + noun), using a spontaneous preference listening ... -
Tracing the interplay between syntactic and lexical features: fMRI evidence from agreement comprehension
Quiñones, Ileana; Molinaro, Nicola; Mancini, Simona; Hernández-Cabrera, Juan Andrés; Barber, Horacio; Carreiras, Manuel (NeuroImage, 2018)The current fMRI study was designed to investigate whether the processing of different gender-related cues embedded in nouns affects the computation of agreement dependencies and, if so, where this possible interaction ... -
What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing
Caffarra, Sendy; Zimnukhova, Svetlana; Mancini, Simona (Linguistics Vanguard, 2016)Even when bilinguals learn both languages from birth and achieve high levels of proficiency, they rarely use their languages to the same degree. Recent findings suggest that individual differences in bilingual profile ... -
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Who are you talking to? The role of addressee identity in utterance comprehension
Caffarra, Sendy; Wolpert, Max; Scarinci, Dana; Mancini, Simona (Psychophysiology, 2020)Experimental evidence suggests that speaker and addressee quickly adapt to each other from the earliest moments of sentence processing, and that interlocutor-related information is rapidly integrated with other sources ... -
Widening agreement processing: a matter of time, features and distance
Biondo, Nicoletta; Luigi Rizzi, Francesco Vespignani; Mancini, Simona (Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2018)Existing psycholinguistic models typically describe agreement relations as monolithic phenomena amounting to mechanisms that check mere feature consistency. This eye-tracking study aimed at widening this perspective by ... -
Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is a Mystery: An Eye-Tracking Investigation of the Processing of Past and Future Time Reference During Sentence Reading
Biondo, Nicoletta; Soilemezidi, Marielena; Mancini, Simona (APA American Psychological Association, 2022)The ability to think about nonpresent time is a crucial aspect of human cognition. Both the past and future imply a temporal displacement of an event outside the “now.” They also intrinsically differ: The past refers to ...