Carla Contemori
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carla Contemori plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. Syntactic priming and child language competence: A critical review and methodological considerations for future research Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications, Messenger, Katherine (ed.), pp. 15–34
Theories of language development differ on how the development of syntax and its mapping to semantics are conceived. An important question in child language research is about the nature and scope of children’s syntactic representations and how they develop over time. In the last sixteen years,… read more | Chapter
2020 When actions and looks don’t line up: The contribution of referential and prosodic information in the processing of PP ambiguities in child-L2 speakers of English Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:5, pp. 623–656
In two eye tracking experiments, we investigate how adult child-L2 speakers of English resolve prepositional phrase (PP) attachment ambiguity in their dominant language (English), and whether they use prosodic information to aid in the process of garden-path recovery. The findings showed an… read more | Article
2015 Resolving pronominal anaphora in real-time: A comparison between Italian native and near-native speakers Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 257–276
This study aims at contributing to research on the comprehension of pronominal subjects by adding novel evidence through an on-line experiment. A self-paced reading task designed for testing antecedent assignment with forward anaphora is used to compare processing of null and overt pronouns in… read more | Article
2014 Processing ser and estar to locate objects and events: An ERP study with L2 speakers of Spanish Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 54–86
In Spanish locative constructions, a different form of the copula is selected in relation to the semantic properties of the grammatical subject: sentences that locate objects require estar while those that locate events require ser (both translated in English as ‘to be’). In an ERP study, we… read more | Article