Ian Cunnings
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ian Cunnings plays a role.
Journal
Sentence processing in bilingual children: Evidence from garden-path sentences Processing in Bilingual Children, Dijk, Chantal van, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 476–511 | Article
2024 Research in sentence processing in bilingual children is emergent but incomplete as very few studies examine the processing of structurally complex sentences or bilingual children’s real-time interpretation of sentences. One underexplored linguistic feature which can offer insights in this… read more
Interference-based and capacity-based approaches to working memory in second language sentence processing Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 243–264 | Chapter
2022 The role that working memory may play in explaining potential differences between native and non-native sentence processing has been increasingly debated. In this chapter, I discuss how the conceptualisation of working memory is crucial to our understanding of its role in second language processing. read more
Antecedent contained deletions in native and non-native sentence processing Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 554–582 | Article
2017 We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers’ real-time processing of antecedent-contained deletion (ACD), a type of verb phrase ellipsis in which the ellipsis gap forms part of its own antecedent. The resulting interpretation… read more
Constraints on L2 learners’ processing of wh-dependencies: Evidence from eye movements Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 87–110 | Article
2010 Using the eye-movement monitoring technique, the present study examined whether wh-dependency formation is sensitive to island constraints in second language (L2) sentence comprehension, and whether the presence of an intervening relative clause island has any effects on learners’ ability to… read more
The time-course of morphological constraints: A study of plurals inside derived words The Mental Lexicon 3:2, pp. 149–175 | Article
2008 The avoidance of regular but not irregular plurals inside compounds (e.g., *rats eater vs. mice eater) has been one of the most widely studied morphological phenomena in the psycholinguistics literature. To examine whether the constraints that are responsible for this contrast have any general… read more