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Boston, Marisa Ferrara; Hale, John T.; Vasishth, Shravan; Kliegl, Reinhold – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Eye fixation durations during normal reading correlate with processing difficulty, but the specific cognitive mechanisms reflected in these measures are not well understood. This study finds support in German readers' eye fixations for two distinct difficulty metrics: surprisal, which reflects the change in probabilities across syntactic analyses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Language Processing, Short Term Memory
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Pickering, Martin; Barry, Guy – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
Provides evidence that sentence processing does not make use of grammatical theories with empty categories. A linguistic account is provided of unbounded dependencies that do not use empty categories and can serve as the basis of a processing model. It is concluded that empty categories are not psychologically real. (28 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Meng, Michael; Bader, Markus – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2000
Using the speeded-grammaticality judgment task, shows that factors that regulate garden path strength in ambiguous sentences also have an influence on processing of corresponding ungrammatical sentences in that they determine how reliably the ungrammaticality is detected. Argues that this processing correlation provides evidence for serial parsing…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Garnham, Alan; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
Two series of experiments investigate two hypotheses that may explain a conflict regarding pronomial reference. The hypothesis accepted is that the use of the gender cue is under the reader's strategic control; the hypothesis rejected is that implicit causality and gender cue interact differently with the complexity of the inference needed to link…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Processing
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Hazlehurst, Brian; Hutchins, Edwin – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Describes language acquisition processes occurring in a community of interacting agents, in which coordination of joint attention leads to the development of structures, internal and external, that support organized behavior. It is argued that the simulation model demonstrates the plausibility of propositions arising from such processes, and that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Group Dynamics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Sturt, Patrick; Crocker, Matthew W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Demonstrates how the definition of "simple attachment" and "tree lowering," operations related to the grammatical composition operations of "substitution" and "adjunction" in the Tree Adjoining Grammar formalism, yields a parser more constrained than previous description theory based models. The article…
Descriptors: Coherence, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams
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Kolk, Herman; Heeschen, Claus – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
Two studies are reported in which the following theory is tested: the agrammatic sentence form that is observed in the spontaneous speech of Broca's aphasics is attributable to the selection of elliptical syntactic structures in which the slots for many of the closed-class words that appear in complete sentences are lacking. (54 references)…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Dutch, Foreign Countries
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Bates, Elizabeth; Goodman, Judith C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that in linguistic theory, phenomena previously handled by a separate grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon and that in some theories, the contrast between grammar and the lexicon has vanished. Concludes that the case for a modular distinction between grammar and the lexicon has been overstated and that the evidence to date…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Change Agents, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
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Bortolini, Umberta; Leonard, Laurence B.; Caselli, Maria Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Children with specific language impairments (eight learning Italian, eight learning English as a first language) were studied for grammatical deficits. Italian-speakers used noun inflections, verb inflections, copula forms more than English-speaking counterparts, matched by utterance length. Articles were used similarly. Results were consistent…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Investigated the effects of the number of tokens in the conceptual representation of the to-be-uttered subject noun phrase in experiments in Dutch and French, in which subject-verb agreement errors were induced. Findings revealed a distributivity effect in both languages, supporting an account in which neither null nor post-verbal subjects are the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Concept Formation, Dutch