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Wong, Andus Wing-Kuen; Chen, Hsuan-Chih – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Three experiments were conducted to investigate how syntactic-category and semantic information is processed in visual word recognition. The stimuli were two-character Chinese words in which semantic and syntactic-category ambiguities were factorially manipulated. A lexical decision task was employed in Experiment 1, whereas a semantic relatedness…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Word Recognition, Chinese
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Roehm, Dietmar; Sorace, Antonella; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013
Sometimes, the relationship between form and meaning in language is not one-to-one. Here, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to illuminate the neural correlates of such flexible syntax-semantics mappings during sentence comprehension by examining split-intransitivity. While some ("rigid") verbs consistently select one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Syntax
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Christiansen, Morten H.; Conway, Christopher M.; Onnis, Luca – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the time course and distribution of brain activity while adults performed (1) a sequential learning task involving complex structured sequences and (2) a language processing task. The same positive ERP deflection, the P600 effect, typically linked to difficult or ungrammatical syntactic…
Descriptors: Evidence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests
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Kas, Bence; Lukacs, Agnes – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Hungarian is a language with morphological case marking and relatively free word order. These typological characteristics make it a good ground for testing the crosslinguistic validity of theories on processing sentences with relative clauses. Our study focused on effects of structural factors and processing capacity. We tested 43 typically…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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Ferreira, Victor S.; Hudson, Melanie – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Previous evidence suggests that when speakers produce sentences from memory or as picture descriptions, their choices of sentence structure are influenced by how easy it is to retrieve sentence material (accessibility). Three experiments assessed whether this pattern holds in naturalistic, interactive dialogue. Pairs of speakers took turns asking…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Memory, Social Influences
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Hofmeister, Philip – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Mental representations formed from words or phrases may vary considerably in their feature-based complexity. Modern theories of retrieval in sentence comprehension do not indicate how this variation and the role of encoding processes should influence memory performance. Here, memory retrieval in language comprehension is shown to be influenced by…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Memory
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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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Wagner, Laura – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
This paper investigated children's ability to use syntactic structures to infer semantic information. The particular syntax-semantics link examined was the one between transitivity (transitive/intransitive structures) and telicity (telic/atelic perspectives; that is, boundedness). Although transitivity is an important syntactic reflex of telicity,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Syntax, Inferences
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Nitschke, Sanjo; Kidd, Evan; Serratrice, Ludovica – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The present study investigated L1 transfer effects in L2 sentence processing and syntactic priming through comprehension in speakers of German and Italian. L1 and L2 speakers of both languages participated in a syntactic priming experiment that aimed to shift their preferred interpretation of ambiguous relative clause constructions. The results…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Gouvea, Ana C.; Phillips, Colin; Kazanina, Nina; Poeppel, David – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The P600 is an event-related brain potential (ERP) typically associated with the processing of grammatical anomalies or incongruities. A similar response has also been observed in fully acceptable long-distance "wh"-dependencies. Such findings raise the question of whether these ERP responses reflect common underlying processes, and what…
Descriptors: Sentences, Topography, Cognitive Psychology, 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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Dell, Gary S.; Oppenheim, Gary M.; Kittredge, Audrey K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Retrieving a word in a sentence requires speakers to overcome syntagmatic, as well as paradigmatic interference. When accessing "cat" in "The cat chased the string", not only are similar competitors such as "dog" and "cap" activated, but also other words in the planned sentence, such as "chase" and "string". We hypothesise that both types of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Inhibition, Vocabulary
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Jungers, Melissa K.; Hupp, Julie M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Previous research has shown evidence for priming of rate in scripted speech. Two experiments examined the persistence of rate in production of unscripted picture descriptions. In Experiment 1, speakers heard and repeated priming sentences presented at a fast or slow rate and in a passive or active form. Speakers then described a new picture. The…
Descriptors: Sentences, Persistence, Adults, Speech
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Scott, Rose M.; Fisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Two-year-olds assign appropriate interpretations to verbs presented in two English transitivity alternations, the causal and unspecified-object alternations (Naigles, 1996). Here we explored how they might do so. Causal and unspecified-object verbs are syntactically similar. They can be either transitive or intransitive, but differ in the semantic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Verbs
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Osterhout, Lee; Hagoort, Peter – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Responds to previous studies on the relationship between event-related brain potential (ERP) responses to linguistic syntactic anomalies and domain-general unexpected events. After reviewing relevant data, this paper concludes that the ERP response to syntactic anomalies is at least partially distinct from the ERP response to unexpected anomalies…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
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