“…The maze task (MT) is a psycholinguistic technique that measures online processing time (Forster et al, 2009;Witzel et al, 2012;Oliveira, in press). The method has been gaining ground in the psycholinguistic field in recent years (e.g., Qiao et al, 2012;Kizach et al, 2013;O'bryan et al, 2013;Nyvad et al 2015;Wang, 2015;Witzel, 2016;Marcilese et al, 2017;Oliveira et al, 2017, Sikos et al, 2017Souza;Oliveira, 2017;Barreto et al, 2018;Li et al, 2017;Hilpert;Saavedra, 2018;Mansbridge;Tamaoka, 2018;Suzuki;Sunada, 2018), especially because spillover and inattention effects (usually measured by comprehension questions) are mitigated during the task. During an experimental session, participants use a keyboard or a similar device to move through sentences word by word or chunk by chunk, and the software 5 records the time spent in each of these parts.…”