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Deutsch, Avital; Dank, Maya – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
A common characteristic of subject-predicate agreement errors (usually termed attraction errors) in complex noun phrases is an asymmetrical pattern of error distribution, depending on the inflectional state of the nouns comprising the complex noun phrase. That is, attraction is most likely to occur when the head noun is the morphologically…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Patterns, Nouns, Suffixes
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Lorimor, Heidi; Bock, Kathryn; Zalkind, Ekaterina; Sheyman, Alina; Beard, Robert – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
We assessed whether and under what conditions noncanonical agreement patterns occur in Russian, with the goal of understanding the factors involved in normal agreement. Russian is a morphosyntactically rich language in which agreement involves features for number, gender, and case. If consistent, overt specification of number and gender agreement…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Grammar
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Traxler, Matthew J.; Tooley, Kristen M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Two eye-tracking experiments and two self-paced reading experiments investigated processing of sentences containing reduced relative clauses. Processing of a reduced relative is facilitated when it is preceded by a sentence that has the same syntactic structure, as long as the preceding sentence contains the same critical verb as the target…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cues, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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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
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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
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Garnham, Alan; Altmann, Gerry – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines research on the interpretation of ambiguous sentences and the presence or absence of contextual override effects. This study also examines the requirements placed on computational models of word-by-word incremental processing. The emerging picture is of a multiple constraint-based system in which knowledge ranging from lexical through…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Bertram, Raymond; Hyona, Jukka; Laine, Matti – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Focuses on the role of context on the processing of inflected nouns in Finnish. Identification of partitive plurals with the homonymic suffix -jA was studied by presenting the target nouns in a sentence context and by recording durations of readers' eye fixations and self-paced reading times for these targets. Results are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Eye Fixations, Finnish
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Stevenson, Rosemary J.; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Two experiments investigated the focusing properties of thematic roles, and a third examined the view that thematic role preferences reflect a focusing on the consequences of the represented event. Results focus on the structure of represented events, top-down and bottom-up processes, thematic hierarchies and pronoun comprehension. (35 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis
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Caplan, David; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reports five experiments; the first two assessed the effect of the selectional restriction requirements of verbs and the animacy of nouns on sentence comprehension, the third determined the cause of the interaction found in the first set of studies, and the fourth and fifth were self-paced reading experiments. (52 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Graphs
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Brennan, Susan E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines what linguistic devices speakers use to make an entity salient in a discourse and how they re-refer to discourse entities moving in and out of focus. Speakers' center of attention was manipulated via a videotaped basketball game. Speakers referred to prominent entities as subjects; when they referred to them as objects, they repeated the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
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Konieczny, Lars – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a fully incremental model that accounts for attachment preferences by the linear order of lexical heads in the surface structure and their thematic properties. Discusses the principle of "parameterised head attachment" and a serial variant on the basis of three online experiments on noun phrase and prepositional phrase…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Foreign Countries, German
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Blackwell, Arshavir; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Presents the results of three experiments investigating the time course of grammaticality judgement. The high correlations among the experiments suggest that the incremental tasks assigned were tapping into the same decision-making process as is found online. The article discusses the findings' implications for the error types that do and do not…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Correlation