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\"\"Our research in sentence processing investigates the cognitive processes that underlie successful language comprehension. We have particular interests in syntactic parsing, linguistic dependency resolution and the role of memory access in successful sentence and discourse comprehension. Much of our research in sentence processing overlaps with our work in Bi-\/Multilingualism<\/a>, and\u00a0examines language comprehension in different populations of speakers, especially bilinguals and other non-native language users. Our work into the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language<\/a>\u00a0also utilises EEG\/ERG to investigate the electrophysiology of sentence processing.<\/p>\n

The lab is equipped with an SR Research Eyelink 1000 eye-tracker for investigating language comprehension during reading and listening, as well as a portable Tobii X120 eye-tracker. We also have a Brain Products actiCAP EEG system for running ERP experiments, as well as computers and cubicles for behavioural testing.<\/p>\n

Representative Publications
\n<\/strong>Alaskar, S. and Cunnings, I. (2025). Agreement and reflexives in non-native sentence processing.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition<\/em>, 28, 897-910.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. & Cunnings, I. (2024).\u00a0Subject-verb dependency formation and semantic interference in native and non-native language comprehension<\/a>.\u00a0Applied Psycholinguistics<\/em>, 45, 81-109.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. and Sturt, P. (2023). Illusions of plausibility in adjuncts and co-ordination.<\/a> Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38<\/em>, 1318-1337.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. and Cunnings, I. (2023). Interference in quantifier float and subject-verb agreement.<\/a> Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38,<\/em> 1001-1019.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. and Cunnings, I. (2022). Interference and filler-gap dependency formation in native and non-native language comprehension.<\/a> Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 48,<\/em> 702-716.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez Alonso, J., Cunnings, I., Fujita, H., Miller, D. and Rothman, J. (2021). Gender attraction in sentence comprehension.<\/a> Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics<\/em>, 6<\/em>, 20.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. & Fujita, A. (2021). Quantifying individual differences in native and non-native sentence processing.<\/a> Applied Psycholinguistics, 42,\u00a0<\/em>579-599.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. and Cunnings, I. (2020). Reanalysis and lingering misinterpretation of linguistic dependencies in native and non-native sentence comprehension.<\/a>\u00a0Journal of Memory and Language, 115, <\/em>104154.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. and Sturt, P. (2018). Coargumenthood and the processing of pronouns.<\/a> Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33, <\/em>1235-1251.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. and\u00a0Sturt, P. (2018). Retrieval interference and semantic interpretation.<\/a>\u00a0Journal of Memory and Language<\/em>, 102<\/em>, 16-27.<\/span><\/p>\n

Puig-Mayenco, E., Rothman, J., Cunnings, I., Bayram, F., Miller, D. and Tubau, S. (2018). Language dominance affects early bilingual performance and processing outcomes in adulthood.<\/a> Frontiers in Psychology<\/em>, 9<\/em>, 1199.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. (2017). Parsing and working memory in bilingual sentence processing.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,\u00a0<\/em>20<\/em>, 659-678.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I., Fotiadou, G. and Tsimpli, I. (2017). Anaphora resolution and reanalysis during L2 sentence processing: evidence from the visual world paradigm.<\/a> Studies in Second Language Acquisition<\/em>,\u00a039,\u00a0<\/em>621-652.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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