Ian Cunnings
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ian Cunnings is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
Title
Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism
Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings
Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
2025 Group level and individual differences in second language sentence processing Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Variability at the group and individual level can inform understanding in second language research. For example, examining by-group and individual differences can play an important role in teasing apart competing theoretical accounts of first and second language processing. In this paper, I… read more
2025 Applying advanced quantitative methods in bi-/multilingualism Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism, Pliatsikas, Christos, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings (eds.), pp. 425–428 | Editorial
2024 Sentence processing in bilingual children: Evidence from garden-path sentences Processing in Bilingual Children, Dijk, Chantal van, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth (eds.), pp. 476–511 | Article
Research in sentence processing in bilingual children is emergent but incomplete as very few studies examine the processing of structurally complex sentences or bilingual children’s real-time interpretation of sentences. One underexplored linguistic feature which can offer insights in this… read more
2022 Interference-based and capacity-based approaches to working memory in second language sentence processing Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 243–264 | Chapter
The role that working memory may play in explaining potential differences between native and non-native sentence processing has been increasingly debated. In this chapter, I discuss how the conceptualisation of working memory is crucial to our understanding of its role in second language processing. read more
2017 Antecedent contained deletions in native and non-native sentence processing Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 554–582 | Article
We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers’ real-time processing of antecedent-contained deletion (ACD), a type of verb phrase ellipsis in which the ellipsis gap forms part of its own antecedent. The resulting interpretation… read more
2010 Constraints on L2 learners’ processing of wh-dependencies: Evidence from eye movements Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 87–110 | Article
Using the eye-movement monitoring technique, the present study examined whether wh-dependency formation is sensitive to island constraints in second language (L2) sentence comprehension, and whether the presence of an intervening relative clause island has any effects on learners’ ability to… read more
2008 The time-course of morphological constraints: A study of plurals inside derived words The Mental Lexicon 3:2, pp. 149–175 | Article
The avoidance of regular but not irregular plurals inside compounds (e.g., *rats eater vs. mice eater) has been one of the most widely studied morphological phenomena in the psycholinguistics literature. To examine whether the constraints that are responsible for this contrast have any general… read more