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Dragoy, Olga; Stowe, Laurie A.; Bos, Laura S.; Bastiaanse, Roelien – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Time reference in Indo-European languages is marked on the verb. With tensed verb forms, the speaker can refer to the past (wrote, has written), present (writes, is writing) or future (will write). Reference to the past through verb morphology has been shown to be particularly vulnerable in agrammatic aphasia and both agrammatic and…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Verbs, Language Processing, Indo European Languages
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Jonsson, Martin L.; Hampton, James A. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
If people believe that some property is true of all members of a class such as sofas, then they should also believe that the same property is true of all members of a conjunctively defined subset of that class such as uncomfortable handmade sofas. A series of experiments demonstrated a failure to observe this constraint, leading to what is termed…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Concept Formation, Form Classes (Languages)
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Tabor, Whitney; Galantucci, Bruno; Richardson, Daniel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
A central question for psycholinguistics concerns the role of grammatical constraints in online sentence processing. Many current theories maintain that the language processing mechanism constructs a parse or parses that are grammatically consistent with the whole of the perceived input each time it processes a word. Several bottom-up, dynamical…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction