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Although all healthy adults have advanced syntactic processing abilities in their native language, psycholinguistic studies report extensive variation among them. However, very few tests were developed to assess this variation, presumably, because when adult native speakers focus on syntactic proces ...

The question of whether listening comprehension is more or less costly than reading comprehension remains open. We investigate whether the effects of grammar complexity are the same in reading and listening sentences. We show that presentation mode has no effect on comprehension accuracy but affects ...

We developed a Sentence Comprehension Test in Russian for syntactic competence assessment. It includes 60 unambiguous grammatically complex sentences of several types with comprehension questions aimed to test effective syntactic processing. The test does not show ceiling effects with adult native s ...

Many studies on different languages analyzed how spelling errors are produced and detected. Recently, a new generalization was made for several languages: frequently misspelled words are read more slowly, even when they are written correctly and one knows how to spell them. This is explained by the ...