Our current understanding of visual word identification is difficult to extend to text reading; both experiments and theories focus primarily, if not exclusively, on out-of-context individual words. Here, we try to fill this gap by studying cross-word semantic and morphological priming within sentences in natural reading, in a novel coregistration paradigm with simultaneous recording of eye movements and electroencephalography. We report results from both eye tracking measures, and, more importantly, from fixation-related potentials, time-locked to the fixation onset on the target word. In both, semantic facilitation clearly emerged, while we observed no effect of morphological priming. These results may indicate that morphological agreement is at least partially computed outside of the lexical-semantic system which gives rise to semantic priming. These results provide new insight into the neural correlates of semantic and morphological priming in natural reading, revealing lexical dynamics as they likely emerge in our everyday reading experience.

The current consensus in the literature of processing of relative clauses states that centre-embedded relative clauses introduce a heavy computational load. While this is well-established, most evidence for it comes from English, while the empirical evidence from many other languages is still lacking. Here, we try to fill this gap by researching the differences in the processing times of centre-embedded and right-branching relative clauses in Slovenian. We report results from a sentence-picture matching task, in which we observe longer reaction times and lower accuracy when the participants are dealing with centre-embedded relative clauses, compared to right-branching ones. This result provides important evidence in a so far largely under-investigated language, contributing to the theoretical claim that the difficulties observed in the processing of centre-embedded relative clauses are language-independent.

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In this paper we investigate the status of various word-formation rules relating to the derivation of the agentive deverbal nominalization in Slovenian by examining the speakers' perception of pseudo-words that violate these rules. The experiment, based on Manouilidou's (2007) investigation of Modern Greek, includes 20 native speakers of Slovenian. The results show that, contrary to Greek speakers, native speakers of Slovenian make a clear line between pseudowords that violate word-formation rules of Slovenian and words that do not, but that they do not differentiate between pseudo-words with different types of violations, equally rejecting all pseudo words with violations.V članku se ukvarjamo z raziskavo pomena različnih besedotvornih pravil v povezavi z izpeljavo slovenskih samostalnikov, ki označujejo vršilca dejanja, tako da ugotavljamo, kako govorci sprejemajo psevdobesede, ki ta različna besedotvorna pravila kršijo. Poskus temelji na podobnem poskusu za moderno grščino v Manouilidou (2007) in vključuje 20 rojenih govorcev slovenščine. Rezultati pokažejo, da rojeni govorci slovenščine postavijo jasno mejo med psevdobesedami z besedotvornimi kršitvami in obstoječimi slovenskimi besedami (ter psevdobesedami brez kršitev), saj v nasprotju z rojenimi govorci grščine v enaki meri zavračajo vse besede s kršitvami, kar kaže na to, da vsem testiranim besedotvornim kršitvam pripisujejo enak pomen.

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