Natalia Slioussar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Natalia Slioussar is involved.
2026 Men and women are from the same planet: Gender similarities in perspective-taking abilities The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
The study examines emotional responses to words representing a wide range of psychological valence and focuses on gender-related differences. We aimed to find out whether men and women differ in their emotional responses, and whether they can take the perspective of another gender. We used the… read more
2026 The effect of spelling errors on reading tasks: A study on Russian The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Many studies on different languages analyzed how spelling errors are produced and detected. Recently, a new generalization was made for several languages: frequently misspelled words are read more slowly, even when they are written correctly and one knows how to spell them. This is explained by… read more
2014 What is and what is not problematic about the T-model Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, Kosta, Peter, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks (eds.), pp. 350–362 | Article
This paper focuses on two important discrepancies between the T-model of the grammar and performance systems responsible for production and comprehension. It argues that independently from the assumed perspective on the competence-performance distinction, one of them is not problematic and the… read more
Pragmatics and prosody in production and comprehension of scopally ambiguous sentences: Evidence from Russian Pragmatics & Cognition: Online-First Articles | Article
We analyzed scopally ambiguous Russian sentences containing sentential negation and NPs with the quantifier ‘all’ following the verb. While prosody has been shown to disambiguate scope in artificial examples lacking pragmatic cues, we aimed to examine its role in real usage, including production… read more