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Ronai, Eszter; Xiang, Ming – Cognitive Science, 2023
Memory limitations and probabilistic expectations are two key factors that have been posited to play a role in the incremental processing of natural language. Relative clauses (RCs) have long served as a key proving ground for such theories of language processing. Across three self-paced reading experiments, we test the online comprehension of…
Descriptors: Memory, Expectation, Language Processing, Syntax
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Garrido Rodriguez, Gabriela; Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Brown, Penelope; Huettig, Falk; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognitive Science, 2023
We present a visual world eye-tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word order in transitive sentences in Tseltal is Verb--Object--Subject (VOS). The verb is usually encountered first, making argument structure and syntactic information…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Eye Movements, Word Order, Verbs
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Hyunwoo Kim; Sun Hee Park – Second Language Research, 2024
It remains an open question whether second language (L2) learners can process linguistic properties at the syntax-discourse interface. This study examines this issue in the context of the L2 processing of Korean dative sentences under different information structure requirements. Given that discourse constraints associated with information…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Sentence Structure
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Siu, Tik-Sze Carrey; Ho, Suk-Han Connie – Language Learning, 2022
The present study compared Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals within three age groups to examine whether bilinguals have an advantage in syntactic processing. Participants were tested on morphosyntactic awareness, word-order awareness, artificial syntax learning, and general cognitive abilities. Bilinguals within the three age…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Syntax, Age Groups, Chinese
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Dotan, Dror; Brutman, Nadin – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Representing the base-10 structure of numbers is a challenging cognitive ability, unique to humans, but it is yet unknown how precisely this is done. Here, we examined whether and how literate adults represent a number's full syntactic structure. In 5 experiments, participants repeated number-word sequences and we systematically varied the order…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phrase Structure, Cognitive Ability, Numbers
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Shin, Gyu-Ho; Deen, Kamil Ud – Language Learning and Development, 2023
The present study investigates the role of three structural factors ("word order," "case-marking," and "verbal morphology") in the comprehension of the Korean suffixal passive by Korean-speaking children. To measure the relative impact of each factor on the comprehension of the passive, we devise a novel method where…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Acoustics
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Pegado, Felipe; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
The present study examined transposed-word effects in a same-different matching task with sequences of 5 words. The word sequences were presented one after the other, each for 400 ms, the first in lowercase and the second in uppercase. The first sequence, the reference, was either a grammatically correct sentence or a scrambled ungrammatical…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Order, Word Recognition, Grammar
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Niu, Ruochen; Liu, Haitao – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
We conducted a broad-coverage investigation of the effects of syntactic distance and word order on language processing against a dependency-annotated reading time corpus of English. A combined method of quantitative syntax and psycholinguistic analyses was adopted to yield converging evidence. It was found that (i) head-initial structures allow…
Descriptors: Word Order, Psycholinguistics, Predictor Variables, Reading Rate
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Zhu, Jingtao; Franck, Julie; Rizzi, Luigi; Gavarro, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We test the comprehension of transitive sentences in very young learners of Mandarin Chinese using a combination of the weird word order paradigm with the use of pseudo-verbs and the preferential looking paradigm, replicating the experiment of Franck et al. (2013) on French. Seventeen typically-developing Mandarin infants (mean age: 17.4 months)…
Descriptors: Infants, Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, Verbs
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Krebs, Julia; Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Roehm, Dietmar – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Nonsigners viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf. Ortega, Özyürek, & Peeters, 2020; Strickland et al., 2015). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic is classifiers: verb-like signs that can refer to location…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Muylle, Merel; Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Language Learning, 2020
Several studies found cross-linguistic structural priming with various language combinations. Here, we investigated the role of two important domains of language variation: case marking and word order, for transitive and ditransitive structures. We varied these features in an artificial language learning paradigm, using three different artificial…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Priming, Language Processing, Language Variation
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Chen, Hui-Ching; Szendroi, Krista; Crain, Stephen; Höhle, Barbara – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This study investigated whether Mandarin speakers interpret prosodic information as focus markers in a sentence-picture verification task. Previous production studies have shown that both Mandarin-speaking adults and Mandarin-speaking children mark focus by prosodic information (Ouyang and Kaiser in Lang Cogn Neurosc 30(1-2):57-72, 2014; Yang and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
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Yadav, Himanshu; Vaidya, Ashwini; Shukla, Vishakha; Husain, Samar – Cognitive Science, 2020
Much previous work has suggested that word order preferences across languages can be explained by the dependency distance minimization constraint (Ferrer-i Cancho, 2008, 2015; Hawkins, 1994). Consistent with this claim, corpus studies have shown that the average distance between a head (e.g., verb) and its dependent (e.g., noun) tends to be short…
Descriptors: Word Order, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
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Garcia, Rowena; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We investigated whether Tagalog-speaking children incrementally interpret the first noun as the agent, even if verbal and nominal markers for assigning thematic roles are given early in Tagalog sentences. We asked five- and seven-year-old children and adult controls to select which of two pictures of reversible actions matched the sentence they…
Descriptors: Tagalog, Eye Movements, Nouns, Children
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Schouwstra, Marieke; Swart, Henriëtte; Thompson, Bill – Cognitive Science, 2019
Natural languages make prolific use of conventional constituent-ordering patterns to indicate "who did what to whom," yet the mechanisms through which these regularities arise are not well understood. A series of recent experiments demonstrates that, when prompted to express meanings through silent gesture, people bypass native language…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Language Acquisition, Bayesian Statistics, Preferences
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