Browsing by Author "Vespignani, Francesco"

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      Attachment and Concord of Temporal Adverbs: Evidence From Eye Movements 

      Biondo, Nicoletta; Vespignani, Francesco; Dillon, Brian (Frontiers in Psychology, 2019)
      The present study examined the processing of temporal adverbial phrases such as “last week,” which must agree in temporal features with the verb they modify. We investigated readers’ sensitivity to this feature match or ...
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      Basic Composition and Enriched Integration in Idiom Processing: An EEG Study 

      Canal, Paolo; Pesciarelli, Francesca; Vespignani, Francesco; Molinaro, Nicola; Cacciari, Cristina (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017)
      We investigated the extent to which the literal meanings of the words forming literally plausible idioms (e.g., break the ice) are semantically composed and how the idiomatic meaning is integrated in the unfolding sentence ...
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      Discourse Expectations Are Sensitive to the Question Under Discussion: Evidence From ERPs 

      Delogu, Francesca; Jachmann, Torsten; Staudte, Maria; Vespignani, Francesco; Molinaro, Nicola (Discourse Processes, 2020)
      Questions under Discussion (QUDs) have been suggested to influence the integration of individual utterances into a discourse-level representation. Previous work has shown that processing ungrammatical ellipses is facilitated ...