Patrick Sturt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3076348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Sturt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Sturt |
| SIGNATURE | STURT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2055-6933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading and comprehension of the masculine used as generic in Italian professional role names
Introduction This study investigated the influence of grammatical information-specifically, the use of masculine forms as generic—on sentence comprehension in Italian. Methods A sentence evaluation paradigm was used. In each trial, a first sentence introduced a professional role name (e.g., Gli architetti uscivano...), followed by a second sentence providing gender information (e.g., una delle donne...). Participants were asked to judge whether t…
Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin
The present study investigated whether children’s difficulty with non-canonical structures is due to their non-adult-like use of linguistic cues or their inability to revise misinterpretations using late-arriving cues. We adopted a priming production task and a self-paced listening task with picture verification, and included three Mandarin non-canonical structures with differing word orders and the presence or absence of morphosyntactic cues. Fo…
Language switch costs in sentence comprehension between Chinese and English: Evidence from self-paced reading
Effects of language switching in bilinguals have been extensively investigated, but the majority of studies have focused on switching in language production. Here we explored intrasentential switching between Chinese and English, employing a self-paced reading paradigm, with Chinese/English using radically different orthographic systems. In addition, we investigated whether L2 (English) proficiency influences switch costs. Results revealed that s…
Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin–English child heritage speakers
Previous research suggests that child HSs’ performance in offline linguistic tasks is typically worse than their age-matched monolingual peers and is modulated by linguistic and child-level factors. This study examined the comprehension and production of three Mandarin non-canonical structures in 5- to 9-year-old Mandarin–English heritage children and Mandarin-speaking monolingual children, including an online processing task. Results showed that…
When social hierarchy matters grammatically: Investigation of the processing of honorifics in Korean
The influence of stereotypical information on gender inference in Chinese
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a group interpretation available (i.e., mereological entity) (e.g., The engineer hooked up the engine t…
Readers detect an low-level phonological violation between two parafoveal words
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Effect of Referring Expression on Antecedent-Grouping Choice in Plural Reference Resolution
This article reports one eye-tracking and one sentence-completion experiment, examining the antecedent preferences for plural anaphora they and demonstrative these. Our results show that the antecedent-grouping preference depends on type of referring expressions: specifically, the preference for they is to refer to a smaller paired group within the context, whereas the preference for these is to refer to a larger (maximal) grouping. This points t…
What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition
The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal subjects, using offline judgements and online eye-tracking measures. Participants included a group of native Spanish speakers experiencing L1 attrition (‘attriters’), a second group of attriters e…
Selectivity in L1 Attrition: Differential Object Marking in Spanish Near-Native Speakers of English
Processing Control Information in a Nominal Control Construction: An Eye-Tracking Study
Deixis: This and That in Written Narrative Discourse
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence
Much experimental work in psycholinguistics suggests that fully specified syntactic and semantic interpretations are obtained incrementally. The finding that interpretation takes place incrementally is very robust and underlies our own view of sentence processing as well; however, most of this work tends to test very simple interpretive judgments using materials that have clean-cut interpretations, which makes the earlier-expressed view more ques…
The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution
A New Look at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Use of Binding Principles in Sentence Processing
Depth of processing in language comprehension: Not noticing the evidence
Search Strategies in Syntactic Reanalysis
We first consider the nature of syntactic reanalysis, paying particular attention to questions about whether and how it differs from the construction of an initial analysis, such as whether it is encapsulated or whether alternatives are considered in parallel or not. We then outline different strategies that the processor may use in reanalysis, and review the relevant evidence. We show that our experimental evidence is compatible with an encapsul…
Thematic Monotonicity
Selectivity in L1 Attrition: Differential Object Marking in Spanish Near-Native Speakers of English
Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence
Much experimental work in psycholinguistics suggests that fully specified syntactic and semantic interpretations are obtained incrementally. The finding that interpretation takes place incrementally is very robust and underlies our own view of sentence processing as well; however, most of this work tends to test very simple interpretive judgments using materials that have clean-cut interpretations, which makes the earlier-expressed view more ques…
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Thematic Monotonicity
Deixis: This and That in Written Narrative Discourse
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
A New Look at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Use of Binding Principles in Sentence Processing
Effect of Referring Expression on Antecedent-Grouping Choice in Plural Reference Resolution
This article reports one eye-tracking and one sentence-completion experiment, examining the antecedent preferences for plural anaphora they and demonstrative these. Our results show that the antecedent-grouping preference depends on type of referring expressions: specifically, the preference for they is to refer to a smaller paired group within the context, whereas the preference for these is to refer to a larger (maximal) grouping. This points t…
Processing Control Information in a Nominal Control Construction: An Eye-Tracking Study
Thematic Monotonicity
Search Strategies in Syntactic Reanalysis
We first consider the nature of syntactic reanalysis, paying particular attention to questions about whether and how it differs from the construction of an initial analysis, such as whether it is encapsulated or whether alternatives are considered in parallel or not. We then outline different strategies that the processor may use in reanalysis, and review the relevant evidence. We show that our experimental evidence is compatible with an encapsul…
Depth of processing in language comprehension: Not noticing the evidence
The time-course of the application of binding constraints in reference resolution
A New Look at the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Use of Binding Principles in Sentence Processing
Underspecification and Anaphora: Theoretical Issues and Preliminary Evidence
Much experimental work in psycholinguistics suggests that fully specified syntactic and semantic interpretations are obtained incrementally. The finding that interpretation takes place incrementally is very robust and underlies our own view of sentence processing as well; however, most of this work tends to test very simple interpretive judgments using materials that have clean-cut interpretations, which makes the earlier-expressed view more ques…
Deixis: This and That in Written Narrative Discourse
The existing literature presents conflicting models of how this and that access different segments of a written discourse, frequently relying on implicit analogies with spoken discourse. On the basis of this literature, we hypothesized that in written discourse, this more readily accesses the adjacent/right frontier of a preceding chunk of text, whereas that more readily accesses the distant/left. We tested this hypothesis in two eye-tracking exp…
What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition
The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal subjects, using offline judgements and online eye-tracking measures. Participants included a group of native Spanish speakers experiencing L1 attrition (‘attriters’), a second group of attriters e…
Selectivity in L1 Attrition: Differential Object Marking in Spanish Near-Native Speakers of English
Processing Control Information in a Nominal Control Construction: An Eye-Tracking Study
Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor it brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative this directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking reading experiment confirm that preferences for it and this differ as predicted. Moreover, a sentence-completion experiment …
Effect of Referring Expression on Antecedent-Grouping Choice in Plural Reference Resolution
This article reports one eye-tracking and one sentence-completion experiment, examining the antecedent preferences for plural anaphora they and demonstrative these. Our results show that the antecedent-grouping preference depends on type of referring expressions: specifically, the preference for they is to refer to a smaller paired group within the context, whereas the preference for these is to refer to a larger (maximal) grouping. This points t…
Readers detect an low-level phonological violation between two parafoveal words
The influence of stereotypical information on gender inference in Chinese
Anaphoric reference to mereological entities
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a group interpretation available (i.e., mereological entity) (e.g., The engineer hooked up the engine t…
Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin–English child heritage speakers
Previous research suggests that child HSs’ performance in offline linguistic tasks is typically worse than their age-matched monolingual peers and is modulated by linguistic and child-level factors. This study examined the comprehension and production of three Mandarin non-canonical structures in 5- to 9-year-old Mandarin–English heritage children and Mandarin-speaking monolingual children, including an online processing task. Results showed that…
When social hierarchy matters grammatically: Investigation of the processing of honorifics in Korean
Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin
The present study investigated whether children’s difficulty with non-canonical structures is due to their non-adult-like use of linguistic cues or their inability to revise misinterpretations using late-arriving cues. We adopted a priming production task and a self-paced listening task with picture verification, and included three Mandarin non-canonical structures with differing word orders and the presence or absence of morphosyntactic cues. Fo…
Language switch costs in sentence comprehension between Chinese and English: Evidence from self-paced reading
Effects of language switching in bilinguals have been extensively investigated, but the majority of studies have focused on switching in language production. Here we explored intrasentential switching between Chinese and English, employing a self-paced reading paradigm, with Chinese/English using radically different orthographic systems. In addition, we investigated whether L2 (English) proficiency influences switch costs. Results revealed that s…
Reading and comprehension of the masculine used as generic in Italian professional role names
Introduction This study investigated the influence of grammatical information-specifically, the use of masculine forms as generic—on sentence comprehension in Italian. Methods A sentence evaluation paradigm was used. In each trial, a first sentence introduced a professional role name (e.g., Gli architetti uscivano...), followed by a second sentence providing gender information (e.g., una delle donne...). Participants were asked to judge whether t…
Psychology (17 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (16 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Sentence (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Comprehension (6 works)