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Scontras, Gregory; Badecker, William; Fedorenko, Evelina – Cognitive Science, 2017
In our article, "Syntactic complexity effects in sentence production" [Scontras, Badecker, Shank, Lim, & Fedorenko, 2015 (EJ1057757)], we reported two elicited production experiments and argued that there is a cost associated with planning and uttering syntactically complex, object-extracted structures that contain a non-local…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentences, Experiments, Planning
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Staub, Adrian; Dillon, Brian; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Two experiments used eyetracking during reading to examine the processing of the matrix verb following object and subject relative clauses. The experiments show that the processing of the matrix verb following an object relative is indeed slowed compared to the processing of the same verb following a subject relative. However, this difficulty is…
Descriptors: Verbs, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Sentences
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Lakusta, Laura; Landau, Barbara – Cognitive Science, 2012
When people describe motion events, their path expressions are biased toward inclusion of goal paths (e.g., into the house) and omission of source paths (e.g., out of the house). In this paper, we explored whether this asymmetry has its origins in people's non-linguistic representations of events. In three experiments, 4-year-old children and…
Descriptors: Memory, Linguistics, Motion, Experiments
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Ambridge, Ben; Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2008
According to Crain and Nakayama (1987), when forming complex yes/no questions, children do not make errors such as "Is the boy who smoking is crazy?" because they have innate knowledge of "structure dependence" and so will not move the auxiliary from the relative clause. However, simple recurrent networks are also able to avoid…
Descriptors: Children, Language Processing, Language Patterns, Linguistic Input