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Simon, Dylan Alexander; Lewis, Gwyneth; Marantz, Alec – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We present an MEG study of homonym recognition in reading, identifying effects of a semantic measure of homonym ambiguity. This measure sheds light on two competing theories of lexical access: the "early access" theory, which entails that lexical access occurs at early (pre 200 ms) stages of processing; and the "late access" theory, which…
Descriptors: Semantics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Vocabulary, Word Recognition
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Boston, Marisa Ferrara; Hale, John T.; Vasishth, Shravan; Kliegl, Reinhold – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Eye fixation durations during normal reading correlate with processing difficulty, but the specific cognitive mechanisms reflected in these measures are not well understood. This study finds support in German readers' eye fixations for two distinct difficulty metrics: surprisal, which reflects the change in probabilities across syntactic analyses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Language Processing, Short Term Memory
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Weiss, Daniel J.; Gerfen, Chip; Mitchel, Aaron D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The process of word segmentation is flexible, with many strategies potentially available to learners. This experiment explores how segmentation cues interact, and whether successful resolution of cue competition is related to general executive functioning. Participants listened to artificial speech streams that contained both statistical and…
Descriptors: Cues, Artificial Speech, Language Processing, Cognitive Processes
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Breen, Mara; Watson, Duane G.; Gibson, Edward – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
This paper evaluates two classes of hypotheses about how people prosodically segment utterances: (1) meaning-based proposals, with a focus on Watson and Gibson's (2004) proposal, according to which speakers tend to produce boundaries before and after long constituents; and (2) balancing proposals, according to which speakers tend to produce…
Descriptors: Local History, Sentences, Intervals, Verbs
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Hillert, Dieter G.; Buracas, Giedrius T. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
To examine the neural correlates of spoken idiom comprehension, we conducted an event-related functional MRI study with a "rapid sentence decision" task. The spoken sentences were equally familiar but varied in degrees of "idiom figurativeness". Our results show that "figurativeness" co-varied with neural activity in the left ventral dorsolateral…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Speech, Oral Language
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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
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Kuperberg, Gina R.; Caplan, David; Sitnikova, Tatiana; Eddy, Marianna; Holcomb, Phillip J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Event-related potentials were measured as subjects read sentences presented word by word. A small N400 and a robust P600 effect were elicited by verbs that assigned the thematic role of Agent to their preceding noun-phrase argument when this argument was inanimate in nature. The amplitude of the P600, but not the N400, was modulated by the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Syntax, Semantics, Sentences
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Blackwell, Arshavir; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Presents the results of three experiments investigating the time course of grammaticality judgement. The high correlations among the experiments suggest that the incremental tasks assigned were tapping into the same decision-making process as is found online. The article discusses the findings' implications for the error types that do and do not…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Correlation