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Deutsch, Avital; Dank, Maya – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
A common characteristic of subject-predicate agreement errors (usually termed attraction errors) in complex noun phrases is an asymmetrical pattern of error distribution, depending on the inflectional state of the nouns comprising the complex noun phrase. That is, attraction is most likely to occur when the head noun is the morphologically…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Patterns, Nouns, Suffixes
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Elqayam, Shira; Ohm, Eyvind; St. B. T. Evans, Jonathan; Over, David E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
In this paper we examine the way disjunctive choices work in conversational context. We focus on disjunctive deontic rules, such as "you must either submit an essay or attend an exam". According to the Gricean "maxim of orderliness", a derivative of the "maxim of manner", people should interpret the first-mentioned…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bias, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication
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Vasishth, Shravan; Suckow, Katja; Lewis, Richard L.; Kern, Sabine – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Seven experiments using self-paced reading and eyetracking suggest that omitting the middle verb in a double centre embedding leads to easier processing in English but leads to greater difficulty in German. One commonly accepted explanation for the English pattern--based on data from offline acceptability ratings and due to Gibson and Thomas…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Grammar
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Zukowski, Andrea – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Relative clauses have been implicated alternately as a strength and a weakness in the language of people with Williams Syndrome (WS). To clarify the facts, an elicited production test was administered to 10 people with WS (age 10-16 years), 10 typically developing children (age 4-7 years), and 12 typically developing adults. Nearly every WS…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Acquisition, Sentence Structure, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Lorimor, Heidi; Bock, Kathryn; Zalkind, Ekaterina; Sheyman, Alina; Beard, Robert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
We assessed whether and under what conditions noncanonical agreement patterns occur in Russian, with the goal of understanding the factors involved in normal agreement. Russian is a morphosyntactically rich language in which agreement involves features for number, gender, and case. If consistent, overt specification of number and gender agreement…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Grammar
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Traxler, Matthew J.; Tooley, Kristen M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two eye-tracking experiments and two self-paced reading experiments investigated processing of sentences containing reduced relative clauses. Processing of a reduced relative is facilitated when it is preceded by a sentence that has the same syntactic structure, as long as the preceding sentence contains the same critical verb as the target…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cues, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Pickering, Martin; Barry, Guy – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
Provides evidence that sentence processing does not make use of grammatical theories with empty categories. A linguistic account is provided of unbounded dependencies that do not use empty categories and can serve as the basis of a processing model. It is concluded that empty categories are not psychologically real. (28 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Allen, Mark; Badecker, William; Osterhout, Lee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Examined the effects of syntactic (tense) violations occurring on regularly versus irregularly inflected verbs using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Discusses implications of the results with respect to morphological parsing, the time course of syntactic feature analysis, and their consequent effects on temporal properties of ERP…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure, Tenses (Grammar)
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MacKay, Donald G.; James, Lori E.; Taylor, Jennifer K.; Marian, Diane E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
This study examines sentence-level language abilities of amnesic H.M. to test competing theoretical conceptions of relations between language and memory. We present 11 new sources of experimental evidence indicating deficits in H.M's comprehension and production of non-cliche sentences. Contrary to recent claims that H.M.'s comprehension is…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Grammar
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Lipka, Sigrid – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Three studies are reported that addressed methodological problems in Stowe's (1989) study, which reported that semantic information eliminates garden paths in sentences with direct object versus subject ambiguity, such as in "Even before the police stopped the driver was frightened." Findings support a sentence processing system relying on…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Research Methodology
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Meng, Michael; Bader, Markus – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Using the speeded-grammaticality judgment task, shows that factors that regulate garden path strength in ambiguous sentences also have an influence on processing of corresponding ungrammatical sentences in that they determine how reliably the ungrammaticality is detected. Argues that this processing correlation provides evidence for serial parsing…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Jennings, F.; Randall, B.; Tyler, L. K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Examined whether the preferences of verbs for appearing in particular subcategory structures can influence parsing and whether this influence is graded according to the strength of the preferences. Findings suggest that the verb subcategory preferences do produce a graded influence on the parse, according to their strength. (28 references)…
Descriptors: English, Language Processing, Models, Semantics
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Gorrell, Paul – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Recent investigations of filler-gap dependencies in sentence processing have assumed that the parser must compute an antecedent-trace relationship in which the trace site is identical to the canonical position of the moved phrase. Pickering and Barry's challenge to this view is refuted and a "direct association hypothesis" is suggested.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
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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
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Pickering, Martin – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Papers by Gorrell and by Gibson and Hickok question Pickering and Barry's (PB) arguments against empty categories in sentence processing. This reply disputes Gorrell's claims that PB's interpretation of the data is inadequate and, in agreement with Gibson and Hickok, reinforces the arguments that the gap location is irrelevant to the formation of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
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