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Ito, Kiwako; Jincho, Nobuyuki; Minai, Utako; Yamane, Naoto; Mazuka, Reiko – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Two eye-tracking experiments tested how pitch prominence on a prenominal adjective affects contrast resolution in Japanese adult and 6-year old listeners. Participants located two animals in succession on displays with multiple colored animals. In Experiment 1, adults' fixations to the contrastive target (pink cat [right arrow] GREEN cat) were…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Animals, Intervals, Gardening
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Milin, Petar; Filipovic Durdevic, Dusica; Moscoso del Prado Martin, Fermin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
In this study, we investigate the relevance of inflectional paradigms and inflectional classes for lexical processing. We provide an information-theoretical measure of the divergence in the frequency distributions of two of the paradigms to which a word simultaneously belongs: the paradigm of the stem and the more general paradigm of the nominal…
Descriptors: Models, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Language Processing
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Moxey, Linda M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
This paper reports three experiments that test the Presupposition-Denial account of complement set reference. According to the theory, complement set focus arises when focus is on the difference between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a large presupposed amount. We call this difference the shortfall. In this paper, what is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Patterns, Language Research, Effect Size