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Berent, Iris; Lennertz, Tracy; Balaban, Evan – Language and Speech, 2012
Certain ill-formed phonological structures are systematically under-represented across languages and misidentified by human listeners. It is currently unclear whether this results from grammatical phonological knowledge that actively recodes ill-formed structures, or from difficulty with their phonetic encoding. To examine this question, we gauge…
Descriptors: Cues, Syllables, Phonetics, Language Universals
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Engelhardt, Paul E.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Language and Speech, 2010
We examined temporarily ambiguous coordination structures such as "put the butter in the bowl and the pan on the towel." Minimal Attachment predicts that the ambiguous noun phrase "the pan" will be interpreted as a noun-phrase coordination structure because it is syntactically simpler than clausal coordination. Constraint-based…
Descriptors: Nouns, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Theories
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Carlson, Katy – Language and Speech, 2001
Explored the processing of ambiguous sentences that may be assigned a gapping or nongapping structure. Focuses on what factors affect the ultimate interpretive preferences for these sentences. In a questionnaire, sentences with greater parallelism between arguments received more gapping responses, though an overall bias toward the nongapping…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Questionnaires, Sentence Structure
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Jay, Timothy B. – Language and Speech, 1981
Examines how one interprets and reacts to dirty-word descriptors. Subjects judged how much they would like a fictitious person described with dirty and non-dirty adjective pairs. Liking was influenced by: (1) semantic interpretation, (2) intrinsicalness of the adjective for the person described, and (3) contextual relations between speaker and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Usage, Pragmatics
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Leiser, David – Language and Speech, 1981
A source of regularity in sentence construction is the recurrent use of certain fixed syntactic formats in explaining, describing, etc. Subjects exploit these regularities in sentence perception. An experiment on the perception of "perverse" sentences shows that listeners assimilate some of the features of sentences to "formulation frames."…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing, Language Usage
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Hieke, Adolf E. – Language and Speech, 1981
Shows that hesitation phenomena are intricately connected with propspective and retrospective speech production tasks and mark critical points in processing. Two major hesitation categories exist: stalls and repairs. Stalls head off errors and represent error-free output; repairs take care of errors already committed. English and German examples…
Descriptors: English, Error Analysis (Language), German, Language Processing