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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Sturt, Patrick; Pickering, Martin J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Are comprehenders affected by an alternative analysis that they do not adopt (a nonadopted analysis) in case of syntactic ambiguity? If the processor only considers and maintains the preferred analysis at a given time, an alternative analysis is then not considered and will hence not affect processing. In two experiments, we examined the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Qiao, Xiaomei; Shen, Liyao; Forster, Kenneth – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region where the difficulty arises. In this study, a "maze" task was used to localise processing difficulty by requiring participants to make a choice between two…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese
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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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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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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
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Alario, F.-Xavier; Costa, Albert; Caramazza, Alfonso – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Investigated the processes of lexical retrieval during the production of adjectival noun phrases. Argues that the existence of a frequency effect for the noun during noun phrase production restricts the various combinations of assumptions that speech production models can hold simultaneously. Possible implications of the additivity of the effects…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Models
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Miyamoto, Edson T.; Gibson, Edward; Pearlmutter, Neal J.; Aikawa, Takako; Miyagawa, Shigeru – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Presents results from a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese investigating attachment preferences for relative clauses to three ensuing potential nominal heads. Results are discussed in light of two types of parsing models. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Japanese, Language Processing, Models
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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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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)
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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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Schafer, Amy; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Discusses two auditory comprehension studies that investigated the role of focus, as conveyed by a pitch accent, in the comprehension of relative clauses preceded by a complex noun phrase. Findings include focus attracts modifiers, and pitch accents for new phrases differ acoustically from pitch accents for contrastive phrases. (46 references)…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Grammar
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Behrens, Heike – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This study provides an account of the distributional information and the production rates in a particularly rich corpus of German child and adult language. Three structural domains are analysed: the parts-of-speech distribution for a coded corpus of circa one million words as well as the internal constituency of 300,000 noun phrases and almost…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Acquisition, German
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Mauner, Gail; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Reports a reanalysis of the data on surface and deep anaphors reported by Tanenhaus and Carlson and two experiments based on the reanalysis. The parallelism effects for deep anaphors were eliminated following short passives but not full passives. The results support the claim that deep and surface anaphors access different types of…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Language Processing, Language Research
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Redington, Martin; Chater, Nick – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Proposes that an important role for connectionist research in language acquisition is analyzing what linguistic information is present in the child's input. Recent connectionist and statistical work analyzing the properties of real language corpora suggest a priori objections against the utility of distributional information are misguided. This…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes