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Laszlo, Sarah; Stites, Mallory; Federmeier, Kara D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
A growing body of evidence suggests that semantic access is obligatory. Several studies have demonstrated that brain activity associated with semantic processing, measured in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP), is elicited even by meaningless, orthographically illegal strings, suggesting that semantic access is not gated…
Descriptors: Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Language Processing
Saying "that" in Dialogue: The Influence of Accessibility and Social Factors on Syntactic Production
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
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
Lobina, David J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
The term "recursion" is used in at least four distinct theoretical senses within cognitive science. Some of these senses in turn relate to the different levels of analysis described by David Marr some 20 years ago; namely, the underlying competence capacity (the "computational" level), the performance operations used in real-time processing (the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Competence
Areas Da Luz Fontes, Ana B.; Schwartz, Ana I. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
We examined whether bilinguals' conceptual representation of homonyms in one language are influenced by meanings in the other. One hundred and seventeen Spanish-English bilinguals generated sentences for 62 English homonyms that were also cognates with Spanish and which shared at least one meaning with Spanish (e.g., plane/"plano"). Production…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Monolingualism, Probability
Short-Term Forgetting in Sentence Comprehension: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Verb-Final Structures
Vasishth, Shravan; Suckow, Katja; Lewis, Richard L.; Kern, Sabine – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Seven experiments using self-paced reading and eyetracking suggest that omitting the middle verb in a double centre embedding leads to easier processing in English but leads to greater difficulty in German. One commonly accepted explanation for the English pattern--based on data from offline acceptability ratings and due to Gibson and Thomas…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Grammar
Horton, William S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
In typical interactions, speakers frequently produce utterances that appear to reflect beliefs about the common ground shared with particular addressees. Horton and Gerrig (2005a) proposed that one important basis for audience design is the manner in which conversational partners serve as cues for the automatic retrieval of associated information…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Associative Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
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
Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Barkhuysen, Pashiera N. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In order to study the role of working memory in sentence formulation, we elicited errors of subject-verb agreement in spoken sentence completion, while speakers did or did not maintain an extrinsic memory load (a word list). We compared participants with low and high speaking spans (a measure of verbal working memory for sentence production). As…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Grammar

Levy, Joseph P.; Bairaktaris, Dimitrios – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Discusses connectionist techniques that can be used for modeling perception, memory, and language processing, concentrating on a class of network with dual-weight connections in which each connection has both short- and long-term weight and describes a novel architecture in which the short- and long-term weights are independent. (45 references)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Impairments, Language Processing, Language Research

Gibson, Edward; Thomas, James – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Results from an English acceptability-rating experiment are presented that demonstrate that people find doubly nested relative-clause structures just as acceptable when only two verb phrases are included instead of the grammatically required three. Three possible accounts of the results are considered. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Grammar, Grammatical Acceptability

Vos, Sandra H.; Gunter, Thomas C.; Schriefers, Herbert; Friederici, Angela D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral measures were used to study the potential effects of individual differences in verbal working memory capacity on the processing of sentences with a local syntactic ambiguity in German. Results indicate that syntactic processes in language comprehension are related to individual differences in…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, German, Individual Differences

Burgess, Curt; Lund, Kevin – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a model of high-dimensional context space, the Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL), with a series of simulations modelling human empirical results. Proposes that HAL's context space can be used to provide a basic categorization of semantic and grammatical concepts; model certain aspects of morphological ambiguity in verbs; and provide…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Context Clues, Language Processing

Roelofs, Ardi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Argues that cross-morpheme and cross-word syllabification in the WEAVER model of speech production point to the need to deal with flexibility of syllable membership and pose difficulty to a memory-based approach but not to WEAVER. The study reviews empirical support for the form of syllabification in WEAVER and reports an experiment on…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Concept Formation, Dutch, Language Processing