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Peer reviewedWarren, Paul; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the incidence of segmental and prosodic contrasts in recorded sentence materials and the use of such distinctions in the processing of utterances. The chosen materials involve sites of parsing ambiguity. Results show that in the immediate interpretation of spoken language input, intonational contrasts function as clear structural…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Ambiguity, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception
Peer reviewedFisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Investigates the availability of syntactic cues to verb meaning. In Experiments 1-3, adult subjects' judgments of verbs' semantic similarity were compared with other adults' judgments about the syntactic properties of the same verbs. In Experiment 4, subjects paraphrased sentences formed by pairing verbs with unaccustomed sentence frames. (54…
Descriptors: Adults, Association Measures, Child Language, Cluster Analysis
