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Comprehension of Sluiced Sentences.
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Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Two experiments and two questionnaire studies investigated the processing of sluiced sentences among college student participants. Results show that, because the interpretation of a sluiced constituent takes place at the representational level of logical form (LF), implicit arguments are not made explicit at LF, but focus is important in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Inferences
Morphological Structure in the Chinese Mental Lexicon.
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
Formal Linguistics and Mental Representation; Psycholinguistic Contributions to the Identification and Explanation of Morphological and Syntactic Competence.
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Hall, Christopher J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Argues that the nature of mental representation contributes little to the specification of synchronic syntactic competence. Psycholinguists, syntacticians, and morphologists can benefit from a collaborative approach to the construction of an integrative model of language and mind, covering competence, representation, processing, and acquisition.…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Research