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Breen, Mara; Watson, Duane G.; Gibson, Edward – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
This paper evaluates two classes of hypotheses about how people prosodically segment utterances: (1) meaning-based proposals, with a focus on Watson and Gibson's (2004) proposal, according to which speakers tend to produce boundaries before and after long constituents; and (2) balancing proposals, according to which speakers tend to produce…
Descriptors: Local History, Sentences, Intervals, Verbs
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Kaan, Edith; Harris, Anthony; Gibson, Edward; Holcomb, Phillip – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Proposes that the P600 component in event related potential research is not restricted to reanalysis processes, but reflects difficulty with syntactic integration processes in general. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Indexes, Language Processing, Language Research
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Gibson, Edward; Hickok, Gregory – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Pickering and Barry's recent argument against the existence of empty categories (ECs) in human sentence processing is disputed. It is argued here that ECs may still play a linking role between thematic role assigners and wh-phrases. One possible parsing algorithm is given that accounts for Pickering and Barry's data. (28 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure