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In progress

Oltrogge, E., Veríssimo, J., Patil, U., & Lago, S. (submitted). Memory retrieval and prediction interact in sentence comprehension: an experimental evaluation of a cue-based retrieval model.

Lago, S., Oltrogge, E., & Stone, K. (under review). Does a productive number system increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language?

Ivanova-Sullivan, T. Sekerina, I., & Lago, S. (under review). Bulgarian clitics are sensitive to number attraction.

Bahmanian, N., Bader, M., & Lago, S. (under review). Argument structure affects relative clause extraposition: corpus evidence from Persian.

Listanti, A., Lago, S., & Torregrossa (under review). The processing of agreement in non-canonical verb-subject orders in Italian: Does the type of verb matter?

2024

Pañeda, C., & Lago, S. (2024). The Missing VP Illusion in Spanish: Assessing the Role of Language Statistics and Working Memory. Open Mind, 8, 42–66.
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Sá-Leite, A. R., & Lago, S. (2024). The role of word form in gender processing during lexical access: A theoretical review and novel proposal in language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
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2023

Lago, S., Stone, K., Oltrogge, E., & Veríssimo, J. (2023). Possessive processing in bilingual comprehension. Language Learning, 73(3), 904–941.
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Rinke, E., Lago, S., & Gattei, C. A. (2023). Diachronic change and variation in use: Judgments of clitic doubling in Peninsular vs. Rioplatense Spanish. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 9(1), 1–18.
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2022

Patil, U., & Lago, S. (2022). Computational cognitive modeling of predictive sentence processing in a second language. Proceedings of the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning.
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2021

Lago, S., Acuña Fariña, C., & Meseguer Felip, E. (2021). The reading signatures of agreement attraction. Open Mind, 5, 132–153.
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Paape, D., Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2021). Misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction: A computational evaluation. Cognitive Science, 45: e13019.
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Patil, U., & Lago, S. (2021). Prediction advantage as retrieval interference: An ACT-R model of processing possessive pronouns. In T. C. Stewart (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (pp. 213–219). Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Penn State.
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Stone, K., Veríssimo, J., Schad, D., Oltrogge, E., Vasishth, S., & Lago, S. (2021). The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(9), 1159–1179.
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Mertzen, D., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2021). The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(5), 807–812.
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Lago, S. (2021). Some challenges of relating wholesale transfer approaches to L3 linguistic behavior. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 11(1), 75–78.
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Stone, K., Lago, S., & Schad, D. (2021). Divergence point analyses of visual world data: applications to bilingual research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(5), 833–841.
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2020

Lago, S., Stutter Garcia, A., & Mosca, M. (2020). The role of crosslinguistic influence in multilingual processing: Lexicon vs. syntax. Language Learning, 71(S1), 163–192.
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Avetisyan, S., Lago, S., & Vasishth, S. (2020). Does case-marking affect subject-verb agreement attraction in sentence comprehension? Journal of Memory and Language, 112.
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Pañeda, C., Lago, S., Vares, E., Veríssimo, J., & Felser, C. (2020). Island effects in Spanish comprehension. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 21.
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Gračanin-Yuksek, M., Lago, S., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., & Kırkıcı, B. (2020). The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers. Second Language Research, 36(4), 475–501.
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2019

Lago, S., Namyst, A., Jäger, L., & Lau, E. (2019). Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing: evidence from the N400. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience , 34(5), 641–661.
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Lago, S. , Stutter Garcia, A., & Felser, C. (2019). The role of native and non-native grammars in the comprehension of possessive pronouns. Second Language Research, 35(3), 319–349.
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Lago, S. , Gračanin-Yuksek, M., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., Kırkıcı, B. & Felser, C. (2019). Straight from the horse’s mouth: agreement attraction effects with Turkish possessors. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 9(3), 398–426.
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Arslan, S., Lago, S., Yanılmaz, A., Drury, J.E., & Felser, C. (2019). The processing of negative polarity items in Turkish-German bilinguals. In P. Guijarro-Fuentes & C. Suárez-Gómez (eds.) Proceedings of GALA 13: Language Acquisition and Development (pp. 117–133). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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2018

Lago, S., & Felser, C. (2018). Agreement attraction in native and non-native speakers of German. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(3), 619–647.
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2017

Gračanin-Yuksek, M., Lago, S., Şafak, D. F., Demir, O., & Kırkıcı, B. (2017). The interaction of contextual and syntactic information in the processing of Turkish anaphors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46(6), 1397–1425.
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Lago, S., Sloggett, S., Schlueter, Z., Chow, W.Y., Williams, A., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2017). Coreference and antecedent representation across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(5), 795–817.
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2016

Jacob, G., Lago, S., & Patterson, C. (2016). L2 processing and memory retrieval: Some empirical and conceptual challenges. Commentary on Ian Cunnings’ keynote article entitled “Parsing and working memory in bilingual sentence processing”. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(4), 691–693.
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Marijuan, S., Lago, S., & Sanz C. (2016). Can English-Spanish emerging bilinguals use agreement morphology to overcome word order bias? In A. E. Tyler, L. Ortega, & M. Uno (eds.) Usage-based approaches to language, language learning, and multilingualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
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2015 and prior

Lago, S., Shalom, D., Sigman, M., Lau, E., & Phillips, C. (2015). Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 82, 133–149.
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Lago, S., Scharinger, M., Kronrod, Y., & Idsardi, W. (2015). Categorical effects in fricative perception are reflected in cortical source information. Brain and Language, 143, 52–58.
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Parker, D., Lago, S., & Phillips, C. (2015). Interference in the processing of adjunct control. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1346.
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Chow, W.Y., Lago, S., Barrios, S., Parker, D., Morini, G., & Lau, E. (2014). Additive Effects of Repetition and Predictability during Comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e99199.
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Muñoz Perez, C., & Lago, S. (2012). An asymmetry in the production of relative clauses: a study in Argentinian Spanish. Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem , 10(18), 64– 83.
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