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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Sturt, Patrick; Pickering, Martin J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Are comprehenders affected by an alternative analysis that they do not adopt (a nonadopted analysis) in case of syntactic ambiguity? If the processor only considers and maintains the preferred analysis at a given time, an alternative analysis is then not considered and will hence not affect processing. In two experiments, we examined the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Boudewyn, Megan A.; Gordon, Peter C.; Long, Debra; Polse, Lara; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
The goal of this study was to examine how lexical association and discourse congruence affect the time course of processing incoming words in spoken discourse. In an event-related potential (ERP) norming study, we presented prime-target pairs in the absence of a sentence context to obtain a baseline measure of lexical priming. We observed a…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Comprehension, Sentences
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Pyykkonen, Pirita; Matthews, Danielle; Jarvikivi, Juhani – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Recent evidence from adult pronoun comprehension suggests that semantic factors such as verb transitivity affect referent salience and thereby anaphora resolution. We tested whether the same semantic factors influence pronoun comprehension in young children. In a visual world study, 3-year-olds heard stories that began with a sentence containing…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
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Severens, Els; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Event-related potentials were used to investigate if there is a lexical bias effect in comprehension monitoring. The lexical bias effect in language production (the tendency of phonological errors to result in existing words rather than nonwords) has been attributed to an internal self-monitoring system, which uses the comprehension system, and…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Word Recognition, Language Processing
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Ferguson, Heather J.; Scheepers, Christoph; Sanford, Anthony J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
During language comprehension, information about the world is exchanged and processed. Two essential ingredients of everyday cognition that are employed during language comprehension are the ability to reason counterfactually, and the ability to understand and predict other peoples' behaviour by attributing independent mental states to them…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Linguistic Input, Eye Movements, Beliefs
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MacKay, Donald G.; James, Lori E.; Taylor, Jennifer K.; Marian, Diane E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
This study examines sentence-level language abilities of amnesic H.M. to test competing theoretical conceptions of relations between language and memory. We present 11 new sources of experimental evidence indicating deficits in H.M's comprehension and production of non-cliche sentences. Contrary to recent claims that H.M.'s comprehension is…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Grammar