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Fukumura, Kumiko; van Gompel, Roger P. G.; Harley, Trevor; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
We tested a cue-based retrieval model that predicts how similarity between discourse entities influences the speaker's choice of referring expressions. In Experiment 1, speakers produced fewer pronouns (relative to repeated noun phrases) when the competitor was in the same situation as the referent (both on a horse) rather than in a different…
Descriptors: Nouns, Grammar, Figurative Language, Models
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Lee, Chia-lin; Federmeier, Kara D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Two event-related potential experiments investigated the effects of syntactic and semantic context information on the processing of noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). Experiment 1 embedded NV-homographs and matched unambiguous words in contexts that provided only syntactic cues or both syntactic and semantic constraints. Replicating prior…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
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Bader, Markus; Haussler, Jana – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
This paper investigates how readers process number ambiguous noun phrases in subject position. A speeded-grammaticality judgment experiment and two self-paced reading experiments were conducted involving number ambiguous subjects in German verb-end clauses. Number preferences for individual nouns were estimated by means of two questionnaire…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
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Snedeker, Jesse; Yuan, Sylvia – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Prior studies of ambiguity resolution in young children have found that children rely heavily on lexical information but persistently fail to use referential constraints in online parsing [Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M., & Logrip, M.L, (1999). The kindergarten-path effect: Studying on-line sentence processing in young children.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language
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Thothathiri, Malathi; Snedeker, Jesse – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
We report two sets of experiments that demonstrate syntactic priming from comprehension to comprehension in young children. Children acted out double-object and prepositional-object dative sentences while we monitored their eye movements. We measured whether hearing one type of dative as a prime influenced children's online interpretation of…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Syntax, Sentences, Verbs
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Staub, Adrian – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Two eye movement experiments examined effects on syntactic reanalysis when the correct analysis was briefly entertained at an earlier point in the sentence. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing a noun phrase coordination/clausal coordination ambiguity, while in Experiment 2 they read sentences containing a subordinate clause…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Nouns, Eye Movements
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Dahan, Delphine; Gaskell, M. Gareth – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Two experiments examined the dynamics of lexical activation in spoken-word recognition. In both, the key materials were pairs of onset-matched picturable nouns varying in frequency. Pictures associated with these words, plus two distractor pictures were displayed. A gating task, in which participants identified the picture associated with…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Cues, Nouns, Eye Movements