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de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine; Grimm, Scott; Arnon, Inbal; Kirby, Susannah; Bresnan, Joan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Focusing on children's production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether children's choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults' choices, and whether, like adults, they are sensitive to multiple factors simultaneously. We do so by using mixed-effect regression models to analyse child and child-directed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Child Language, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Alishahi, Afra; Stevenson, Suzanne – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Semantic roles are a critical aspect of linguistic knowledge because they indicate the relations of the participants in an event to the main predicate. Experimental studies on children and adults show that both groups use associations between general semantic roles such as Agent and Theme, and grammatical positions such as Subject and Object, even…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Verbs, Grammar
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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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Janssen, Dirk P.; Roelofs, Ardi; Levelt, Willem J. M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Reports priming experiments that examined production of inflected forms. Participants produced words out of small sets in response to prompts. Results are interpreted in terms of a slot-and-filler model of word production in which inflectional frames on one hand and stems and affixes on the other are independently spelled out on the basis of an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Models, Morphemes
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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
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Pynte, Joel; Prieur, Benedicte – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The role of prosodic breaks (PB) in the parsing of locally ambiguous noun phrases (NP) + verb (V) + NP + prepositional phrase (PP) was examined in four word-monitoring experiments. Results indicate that PBs can influence sentence parsing. The article discusses possible mechanisms in the framework of two models. (32 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Models, Nouns, Phrase Structure
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Stirling, Lesley; Wales, Roger – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Examines, through two studies, how prosodic information affects syntactic processing in locally ambiguous sentences. The first study dealt with people's judgments of the continuation of locally ambiguous sentence fragments of differing lengths. The second concerned ratings of normality of sentence types with differing contours. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, English
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Stevenson, Suzanne; Merlo, Paolo – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Focuses on the consequences that the structural configuration of lexical knowledge has for the timecourse of parsing. Discusses reduced relative clauses and proposes a new lexical-structural analysis for manner of motion verbs. The article examines consequences for frequency-based models and all models whose difficulty derives from the ambiguity…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Lexicology, Models
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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
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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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Tanenhaus, Michael K.; Spivey-Knowlton, Michael J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Reviews the eye-movement paradigm and refers to recent experiments applying the paradigm to issues of spoken word recognition (e.g., lexical competitor effects), syntactic processing, reference resolution, focus, as well as issues in cross-modality integration that are central to evaluating the modularity hypothesis. (Seven references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Hypothesis Testing, Language Processing, Models
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Gaskell, M. Gareth; Marslen-Wilson, William D. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a distributed connectionist model of the perception of spoken words, employing speech representation that combines lexical and abstract phonological information, with lexical access as a direct mapping on this distributed representation. The article examines the integration of partial cues to phonological identity, showing that the model…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Data Analysis, Linguistic Theory
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Boland, Julie E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Investigated the relationship between syntactic and semantic processing using a word-by-word reading paradigm and a cross-modal integration paradigm. The study evaluated the experimental results with regard to serial autonomous models, strongly and weakly interactive models, and a hybrid model proposed here. (92 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Processing
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Nicol, Janet L. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Reviews the syntactic priming task, a paradigm involving the presentation of a phrasal or clausal context, followed by the presentation of a target item for lexical decision or naming. Notes that response times are faster for targets syntactically congruent with the preceding context than for incongruent targets. Outlines how to administer this…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Context Effect, Decision Making, Language Processing
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