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Grace Man – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It is well known that persons with aphasia (PWA) demonstrate deficits in sentence processing. Specifically, many show difficulties with syntactic re-analysis, or the ability to revise one's interpretation of a sentence due to a temporary ambiguity. Emerging evidence suggests that structural priming, individuals' tendency to unconsciously re-use a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Aphasia, Pacing
Paul Vincent Fusella – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The phenomenon in psycholinguistics known as structural priming happens, during language comprehension, when a prime sentence facilitates the processing speed of a target sentence, when both bear the same syntactic structure. In the present study, two specific passive constructions were investigated, the agentive "by"-phrase and the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Eye Movements, Psycholinguistics, Priming
Marie Bissell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dialects vary in their allophonic patterns, which can affect listeners' phonological and lexical representations. I explore how different exposure to dialect-specific allophonic patterns for two vowels in American English, /ae ai/, affects listeners' lexical processing behaviors across three perception tasks: perceptual similarity, priming, and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation
Mai Al-Khatib – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Linguistic meaning is generated by the mind and can be expressed in multiple languages. One may assume that equivalent texts/utterances in two languages by means of translation generate equivalent meanings in their readers/hearers. This follows if we assume that meaning calculated from the linguistic input is solely objective in nature. However,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistic Input, Bilingualism, Language Processing
Larissa M. Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive and terminal kind of dementia, continues to rise with an estimated 14 million Americans affected by 2050. Prior to an AD diagnosis, many individuals are diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and have similar, but less severe, symptoms as those with AD. A common…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Mild Intellectual Disability, Clinical Diagnosis
Monica Yin-Chen Li – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There is a general consensus in theories of human speech recognition that humans engage in predictive processing during online speech processing. There are also claims that predictive processing indicates the operation of a predictive coding (PC) mechanism (Rao & Ballard, 1999). Formally, PC is a generative model where top-down signals consist…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Speech Communication, Error Patterns, Artificial Intelligence
Drew J. McLaughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Listeners use more than just acoustic information when processing speech. Social information, such as a speaker's race/ethnicity, can also affect listeners' understanding of the speech signal. In some cases, these social primes can facilitate perception, while in others they may inhibit perception. Indeed, a picture of an East Asian face has been…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Generalization
Hao Yan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The current research investigates interactions between lexical and structural processing in the construction and interpretation of transitive and dative sentence structures, and relates speakers' choice of structure in sentence production to STM processes and recent/long-term language experience conditioned on lexical information. Study 1…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Aphasia, Short Term Memory
Bronson Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Vocabulary researchers have started expanding their assessment toolbox by incorporating timed tasks and psycholinguistic instruments (e.g., priming tasks) to gain insights into lexical development (e.g., Elgort, 2011; Godfroid, 2020b; Nakata & Elgort, 2020; Vandenberghe et al., 2021). These timed sensitive and implicit word measures differ…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Decision Making, Vocabulary Development
Frazer, Alexandra Kate – ProQuest LLC, 2016
We still know surprisingly little about how grammatical structures are selected for use in sentence production. A major debate concerns whether structural selection is competitive or noncompetitive. Competitive accounts propose that alternative structures or structural components actively suppress one another's activation until one option reaches…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research
Mason, Sara Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This thesis examines whether native, heritage, and L2 speakers of Spanish engage a morphological layer of representation in the processing of inflected words, and whether they do so with both regularly- and irregularly-inflected words. Also examined is whether this tendency towards compositional (i.e. morphological rule-based) processing is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Usage, Accuracy
Zheng, Chun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Producing a sensible utterance requires speakers to select conceptual content, lexical items, and syntactic structures almost instantaneously during speech planning. Each language offers its speakers flexibility in the selection of lexical and syntactic options to talk about the same scenarios involving movement. Languages also vary typologically…
Descriptors: Motion, Mandarin Chinese, English, Contrastive Linguistics
Kemp, Lisa Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Native-English speaking adults use morphological decomposition to understand complex words (e.g. "farmer" becomes "farm-er"). Whether decomposition is driven by semantic organization is still unclear. It is also unclear whether ESL adults and elementary age children use the same word processing strategies as native speaking…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, English, Native Language
Oppenheim, Gary Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Naming a picture of a dog primes the subsequent naming of a picture of a dog (repetition priming) and interferes with the subsequent naming of a picture of a cat (semantic interference). Behavioral studies suggest that these effects derive from persistent changes in the way that words are activated and selected for production, and some have…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Speech, Models, Naming
Stoyneshka-Raleva, Iglika – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation introduces and evaluates a new methodology for studying aspects of human language processing and the factors to which it is sensitive. It makes use of the phoneme restoration illusion (Warren, 1970). A small portion of a spoken sentence is replaced by a burst of noise. Listeners typically mentally restore the missing phoneme(s),…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Language Research, Slavic Languages, Semantics
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