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Staiger, Anja; Ruttenauer, Anna; Ziegler, Wolfram – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The term "phrase-level reduction" refers to transformations of the phonetic forms of words in connected speech. They are a characteristic property of fluent speech in normal speakers. Phrase-level reductions contribute to a reduction of articulatory-motor effort and constitute an important aspect of speech naturalness. So far, these phenomena have…
Descriptors: Investigations, Speech, Phonetics, Speech Impairments
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Stefanini, Silvia; Bello, Arianna; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Iverson, Jana M.; Volterra, Virginia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Few studies have explored the development of the gesture-speech system after the two-word stage. Aim of the present study is to examine developmental changes in speech and gesture use, in the context of a simple naming task. Fifty-one children (age range: 2;3-7;6) were divided into five age groups and requested to name pictures representing…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Children, Age Differences, Language Processing
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Morris, Joanna; Grainger, Jonathan; Holcomb, Phillip J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
This experiment examined event-related responses to targets preceded by semantically transparent morphologically related primes (e.g., farmer-farm), semantically opaque primes with an apparent morphological relation (corner-corn), and orthographically, but not morphologically, related primes (scandal-scan) using the masked priming technique…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Semiotics, Priming
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Ferreira, Fernanda; McClure, Karen K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
In three experiments, readers were presented with garden-path sentences containing reciprocal verbs, and their eye movements were monitored. Results demonstrate that information from the reciprocal verb influenced the earliest stages of syntactic processing. (29 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Higher Education
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Dominguez, Alberto; de Vega, Manuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that, in Spanish, there is empirical support for the notion that, in visual word recognition, the syllables initially activate competing lexical candidates. Presents experiments intended to explore these inhibitory processes and discusses the applicability of the data to a dual-route model and the time course of syllabic processing. (55…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Martin, Nadine; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Examines semantic errors produced by normal and aphasic speakers on a picture naming test for their phonological similarity to the targets they replace. A second study examines phonological relationships within sets of semantically related words and shows there is no tendency for these words to share phonological characteristics. (35 references)…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Associative Learning, Consonants, Data Analysis
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Caplan, David; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reports five experiments; the first two assessed the effect of the selectional restriction requirements of verbs and the animacy of nouns on sentence comprehension, the third determined the cause of the interaction found in the first set of studies, and the fourth and fifth were self-paced reading experiments. (52 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Graphs