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Kukona, Anuenue; Fang, Shin-Yi; Aicher, Karen A.; Chen, Helen; Magnuson, James S. – Cognition, 2011
Several studies have demonstrated that as listeners hear sentences describing events in a scene, their eye movements anticipate upcoming linguistic items predicted by the unfolding relationship between scene and sentence. While this may reflect active prediction based on structural or contextual expectations, the influence of local thematic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Sentence Structure, Verbs
Fisher, Cynthia; Klingler, Stacy L.; Song, Hyun-joo – Cognition, 2006
Children as young as two use sentence structure to learn the meanings of verbs. We probed the generality of sensitivity to sentence structure by moving to a different semantic and syntactic domain, spatial prepositions. Twenty-six-month-olds used sentence structure to determine whether a new word was an object-category name ("This is a corp!") or…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Toddlers, Language Acquisition

Garvey, Catherine; And Others – Cognition, 1974
A technique is demonstrated whereby an implicit semantic feature can be related to a grammatical alternative (pronoun-antecedent assignment) and thereby made explicit. It is also demonstrated that pragmatic, syntactic and other semantic features interact in an orderly way with this implicit feature of causality in verbs. (RC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language, Pronouns

Grober, Ellen H.; And Others – Cognition, 1978
Subjects completed sentences of the form NP1 aux V NP2 because (but) Pro...(e.g., John may scold Bill because he...) with a reason or motive for the action described. A basic perceptual strategy was hypothesized to underlie the comprehension of these sentences which have a potentially ambiguous pronoun in the subject position of the subordinate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Deep Structure, Higher Education

Ford, Marilyn; Holmes, Virginia M. – Cognition, 1978
An experiment was conducted to determine whether the deep structure or the surface structure clause is more important as a speech planning unit, and whether syntactic decisions are made during sentence production. Results were discussed in relation to previous studies of pausing and speech disruption. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm

Berndt, Rita Sloan; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Investigated the source of agrammatic aphasic patients' difficulty comprehending semantically reversible sentences. Found approximately equal distributions of three distinct patterns. Results conflict with explanations of comprehension failure which state that a single pattern of performance on sentence structures characterizes comprehension of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Grammar

Moore, Timothy E.; Biederman, Irving – Cognition, 1979
The speed at which sentences with various kinds of violations could be rejected was studied. Compatible with the sequential model was the finding that noun-verb and adjective-noun double violations did not result in shorter reaction times than noun-verb single violations, although double violations were judged less acceptable. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Grammar, Higher Education

Antinucci, Francesco; And Others – Cognition, 1979
This study presents a view of diachronic change in language which focuses on the conflicting interaction of principles determining language organization. Principles of structural and perceptual nature are in conflict in language of the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) type, because of the relative clause construction. Theoretical and empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals

Vigliocco, Gabriella; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Reports four experiments examining subject-verb agreement errors in Spanish and English. Discusses cross-linguistic differences within the framework of the computational model of grammatical encoding proposed by Kempen and Hoenkamp. Suggests that languages differ in the extent to which the selection of the verb is controlled by features on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English