NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 1 to 15 of 18 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ueno, Mieko; Garnsey, Susan M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research on English relative clauses shows that ORs take longer to read (King & Just, 1991) and elicit anterior negativity between fillers and gaps (King & Kutas, 1995), which is…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Japanese
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
La Heij, Wido; Starreveld, Peter A.; Kuipers, Jan-Rouke – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
In the last two decades, La Heij and colleagues have presented accounts of a number of context effects in Stroop-like word-production tasks. Roelofs (2007 this issue) criticises various aspects of our proposals, ranging from the number of processing stages assumed to details of simulation results. In this reply we first argue that we do not…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Psycholinguistics, Rhetorical Criticism, Program Validation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Altmann, Lori J. P.; Kemper, Susan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
The current study examines whether young and older adults have similar preferences for animate-subject and active sentences, and for using the order of activation of a verb's arguments to determine sentence structure. Ninety-six participants produced sentences in response to three-word stimuli that included a verb and two nouns differing in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Older Adults, Young Adults, Nouns
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Jennings, F.; Randall, B.; Tyler, L. K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Examined whether the preferences of verbs for appearing in particular subcategory structures can influence parsing and whether this influence is graded according to the strength of the preferences. Findings suggest that the verb subcategory preferences do produce a graded influence on the parse, according to their strength. (28 references)…
Descriptors: English, Language Processing, Models, Semantics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Gerrig, Richard J.; Murphy, Gregory L. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
Four experiments demonstrated that the comprehension of novel compound nouns involves the recognition of a general relationship between two categories. They reinforce earlier findings that the process of creating meanings may be equally as efficient as the process of selecting meanings. (33 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Gorrell, Paul – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Recent investigations of filler-gap dependencies in sentence processing have assumed that the parser must compute an antecedent-trace relationship in which the trace site is identical to the canonical position of the moved phrase. Pickering and Barry's challenge to this view is refuted and a "direct association hypothesis" is suggested.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Gibson, Edward; Hickok, Gregory – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Pickering and Barry's recent argument against the existence of empty categories (ECs) in human sentence processing is disputed. It is argued here that ECs may still play a linking role between thematic role assigners and wh-phrases. One possible parsing algorithm is given that accounts for Pickering and Barry's data. (28 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Pickering, Martin – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1993
Papers by Gorrell and by Gibson and Hickok question Pickering and Barry's (PB) arguments against empty categories in sentence processing. This reply disputes Gorrell's claims that PB's interpretation of the data is inadequate and, in agreement with Gibson and Hickok, reinforces the arguments that the gap location is irrelevant to the formation of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Garnham, Alan; Oakhill, Jane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
The mental models approach is outlined for the following topics: combinatory semantics, anaphora, and inference. The flexibility of the language-processing system is discussed. (18 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Inferences, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Vonk, Wietske; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
This paper demonstrates that language users exploit overspecification both in production and in comprehension of text. Controlled discourse production experiments show that the use of overspecification depends on theme shifts; comprehension studies test the claim that the differential use of anaphoric references correlates with thematic structure…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Kamide, Yuki; Mitchell, Don C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
This study focuses on the question of whether structural analyses of verb-arguments are postponed until the head has been processed or initiated prior to the appearance of the verb. To explore this question in relation to a head-final language, a Japanese dative argument attachment ambiguity was examined in both a questionnaire study and a…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Japanese, Language Processing, Questionnaires
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hinojosa, Jose A.; Martin-Loeches, Manuel; Casado, Pilar; Munoz, Francisco; Rubia, Francisco J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Event-related potentials (EPRs) were employed to compare word category and verb inflection violations in Spanish. A similar frontal negativity was found between 250-400 ms for both violation types, suggesting that they equally disrupt initial syntactic analyses. These and other findings are discussed in detail. (VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Morphology (Languages)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Oakhill, Jane; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
Three experiments are reported on the interpretation of conceptual anaphors, defined as those that do not have an explicit linguistic antecedent but one constructed from text. Two experiments showed that conceptual anaphors are quite easily understood but are processed with difficulty; the third one showed mixed results. (three references)…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Carreiras, Manuel; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
The mechanisms involved in the assignment of an antecedent to an anaphoric element are examined. Taken together, four experiments suggest that conceptual, although grammatically illegal, anaphors do not cause comprehensive difficulties. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lau, Ellen F.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2005
In two experiments, we tested for lingering effects of "verb replacement" disfluencies on the processing of garden path sentences that exhibit the main verb/reduced relative (MV/RR) ambiguity. Participants heard sentences with revisions like "The little girl chosen, uh, selected for the role celebrated with her parents and friends". We found that…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Figurative Language, Sentence Structure
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2