We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences that were consistent with events occurring within a protagonist's present timeline but inconsistent with events in the protagonist's future. When prospective information…

The present study addresses the question whether accentuation and prosodic phrasing can have a similar function, namely, to group words in a sentence together. Participants listened to locally ambiguous sentences containing object- and subject-control verbs while ERPs were measured. In Experiment 1, these sentences contained a prosodic break,…

Child sexual offenders are hypothesized to hold offence-supportive beliefs that set them apart from others. The current study seeks support for this view via a cognitive-experimental approach. Child sexual offenders and offender controls were exposed to pictures of semi-clothed children (priming condition) or clothed, mature adults (control…

Discusses a number of issues that bear on the scientific usefulness of sentence verification models. These models explain how information from a sentence is compared to its referent. (Editor)

Considers several recent information-processing models of sentence-picture matching to assess their implications for sentence processing. (Editor/RK)

The present investigation was undertaken to study the relation of one component of intonation or stress, namely, rhythmic temporal patterns, to the production of utterances.It is hypothesized that the rhythmic schema of an utterance contains information that delimits the possible syntactic forms of that utterance. (Author)

An exposition of reasons why a system of automatic translation could not use a terminology bank except as a source of information. The fundamental difference between the two tools is explained and examples of translation and mistranslation are given as evidence of the limits and possibilities of each process. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This research was a further test of the theory of constructive processes proposed by Foos, Smith, Sabol, and Mynatt (1976) to account for differences among presentation orders in the construction of linear orders. This theory is composed of different series of mental operations that must be performed when an order relationship is integrated with…

Research supported in part by a United States Public Health Service Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (VM)

During research reported here, the author held a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship. (VM)

Research based on part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Virginia and supported by a National Science Foundation Research Grant to L. Starling Reid. Preliminary report of these data presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, N.Y., 1971. (VM)

In a study of the effects of instructions on reaction times to judgments of the truth or falsity of sentences, 40 undergraduates were provided computer-assisted instruction by either the "true" or "conversion" model and required to judge 64 sentences of all possible combinations of true or false, affirmative or negative, and expletive or…