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Saying "that" in Dialogue: The Influence of Accessibility and Social Factors on Syntactic Production
Ferreira, Victor S.; Hudson, Melanie – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Previous evidence suggests that when speakers produce sentences from memory or as picture descriptions, their choices of sentence structure are influenced by how easy it is to retrieve sentence material (accessibility). Three experiments assessed whether this pattern holds in naturalistic, interactive dialogue. Pairs of speakers took turns asking…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Memory, Social Influences
Elqayam, Shira; Ohm, Eyvind; St. B. T. Evans, Jonathan; Over, David E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
In this paper we examine the way disjunctive choices work in conversational context. We focus on disjunctive deontic rules, such as "you must either submit an essay or attend an exam". According to the Gricean "maxim of orderliness", a derivative of the "maxim of manner", people should interpret the first-mentioned…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bias, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication
Short-Term Forgetting in Sentence Comprehension: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Verb-Final Structures
Vasishth, Shravan; Suckow, Katja; Lewis, Richard L.; Kern, Sabine – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Seven experiments using self-paced reading and eyetracking suggest that omitting the middle verb in a double centre embedding leads to easier processing in English but leads to greater difficulty in German. One commonly accepted explanation for the English pattern--based on data from offline acceptability ratings and due to Gibson and Thomas…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Grammar
Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Barkhuysen, Pashiera N. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In order to study the role of working memory in sentence formulation, we elicited errors of subject-verb agreement in spoken sentence completion, while speakers did or did not maintain an extrinsic memory load (a word list). We compared participants with low and high speaking spans (a measure of verbal working memory for sentence production). As…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Grammar