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My research investigates how language users of all kinds – adults and children, monolingual and bilingual – process and learn language. I am particularly interested in how we integrate information from various linguistic (e.g., phonological, syntactic, semantic) and non-linguistic (e.g., event structure, visual information) sources, how we do so as quickly and successfully as we typically do in everyday communication, and how input and experience influence our language learning and use.
Areas of Expertise:
- Sentence processing
- Developmental Psycholinguistics
- Childhood bilingualism
Selected Publications:
Zhu, Y. A., & Grüter, T. (2025). Native speakers and learners of Mandarin predict upcoming arguments in dative constructions based on categorical and gradient verb constraints. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(3), 601–612. https://doi.org/10.1017/
Haeuser, K. I., & Grüter, T. (2025). Reduced false memory effects for predictable words in L2 speakers of German: evidence from self-paced reading and recognition memory. Applied Psycholinguistics, 46, e26. https://doi.org/10.1017/
Jackson, C. N., Hopp, H., & Grüter, T. (2025). Does syntax constrain semantic predictions in L1 and L2 processing? Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1): 19, pp. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5070/G6011.
Zhu, Y. A., & Grüter, T. (2024). Structural priming facilitates L2 learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46(4), 1094-1116. https://doi.org/10.1017/
Nguyen, H., & Grüter, T. (2024). Facilitative use of classifiers in heritage Vietnamese. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.
Hao, J., Kubota, M., Bayram, F., González Alonso. J., Grüter, T., Li, M., & Rothman, J. (2024). Schooling and home language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin. Second Language Research. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/