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Fossard, Marion; Garnham, Alan; Cowles, H. Wind – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun he or she preferentially refers to the highly-focused referent. The findings, from a sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension
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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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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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Crinean, Marcelle; Garnham, Alan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Stewart, Pickering, and Sanford (1998) reported a new type of semantic inference, implicit consequentiality, which they suggest is comparable to, although not directly related to, the well-documented phenomenon of implicit causality. It is our contention that there is a direct relation between these two semantic phenomena but that this relation…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Language Processing, Sentences
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Cho, Jeung-Ryeul; Chen, Hsuan-Chih – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Investigated whether: (1) the role of phonological and orthographic activation differs during semantic processing of Korean Hangul and Hanja and (2) proficiency in Korean Hanja would affect the way phonology is used in comprehension of Hanja characters. Overall, results indicate both language proficiency and script difference can affect the…
Descriptors: Korean, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Orthographic Symbols
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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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Cupples, Linda – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Examined how skilled adult readers assign meaning to sentences. Of particular interest were sentences containing "experiencer" verbs, which describe states or emotions rather than actions. Subjects were university students in Australia. Test items were semantically implausible sentences. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Error Analysis (Language)
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Caplan, David; Walters, Gloria S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The functional architecture of the verbal processing resource system was studied by testing aphasic patients in Canada and Boston for their abilities to use syntactic structure in sentence comprehension in isolation and under dual-task conditions. Results indicate that the processing resource system underlying syntactic processing is separate from…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes