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Representing Characters in a Scenario: What Makes Two Individuals a Set?
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Moxey, Linda M.; Sanford, Anthony J.; Tonks, Karen – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Following two individually mentioned characters in a text it is possible to successfully refer to either the individuals, or the set of two. Various factors, syntactic and pragmatic, have been found to affect the ease with which these types of reference can be made, however. This is therefore an interesting puzzle for those attempting to work out…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Research, Reading Comprehension, Pragmatics
Processing Dependencies between Segmental and Suprasegmental Features in Mandarin Chinese
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Tong, Yunxia; Francis, Alexander L.; Gandour, Jackson T. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The aim of this study was to examine processing interactions between segmental (consonant, vowel) and suprasegmental (tone) dimensions of Mandarin Chinese. Using a speeded classification paradigm, processing interactions were examined between each pair of dimensions. Listeners were asked to attend to one dimension while ignoring the variation…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Word Recognition, Classification
Does Normal Processing Provide Evidence of Specialised Semantic Subsystems?
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Shapiro, Laura R.; Olson, Andrew C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2005
Category-specific disorders are frequently explained by suggesting that living and non-living things are processed in separate subsystems (e.g. Caramazza & Shelton, 1998). If subsystems exist, there should be benefits for normal processing, beyond the influence of structural similarity. However, no previous study has separated the relative…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Semantics, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Processes