Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Biondo, Nicoletta"
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Adult Chinese Spanish L2ers’ acquisition of phi-agreement and temporal concord: The role of morphosyntactic features and adverb/subject-verb distance
Mao, Tiaoyuan; Biondo, Nicoletta; Zheng, Zilong (Frontiers, 2022)While phi-agreement and concord are suggested to differ in nature during the first language (L1) acquisition, the acquisition of adverb-verb TC and SV person/number agreement by Chinese Spanish second language (L2) learners ... -
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 ... -
Features matter: the role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in Italian
Biondo, Nicoletta; Pagliarini, Elena; Moscati, Vincenzo; Rizzi, L.; Belletti, A. (Taylor & Francis, 2023-12-28)In this study, we investigated whether different morphosyntactic features, i.e. number and gender, play a role during the adult online comprehension of subject relative clauses (SRC) and object relative clauses (ORC), in ... -
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 ... -
What a thousand children tell us about grammatical complexity and working memory: A cross-sectional analysis on the comprehension of clitics and passives in Italian
Moscati, Vincenzo; Marini, Andrea; Biondo, Nicoletta (2023)Data from 996 Italian-speaking children were collected and analyzed to assess whether a movement-based notion of grammatical complexity is adequate to capture the developmental trend of clitics and passives in Italian. A ... -
When more is more. L2 agreement improves when listeners can rely on both noun and verbal features
Biondo, Nicoletta; Cilibrasi, Luca (Šnek Publishing, 2022)English verbal agreement has been shown to be a particularly challenging domain in both first and second language acquisition. In this study, we tested the comprehension of sentences with masked and unmasked agreement ... -
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 ...