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Moreton, Elliott – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Is phonological learning subject to the same inductive biases as learning in other domains? Previous studies of non-linguistic learning found that intra-dimensional dependencies (between two instances of the same feature) were learned more easily than inter-dimensional ones. This study compares implicit learning of intra- and inter-dimensional…
Descriptors: Memory, Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Experiments
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Metusalem, Ross; Kutas, Marta; Urbach, Thomas P.; Hare, Mary; McRae, Ken; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world events plays an important role in guiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of event knowledge activation during the course of comprehension, specifically investigating whether activation is limited to those knowledge elements that align with the local…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Linguistics, Language Processing
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Kahn, Jason M.; Arnold, Jennifer E. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Givenness tends to lead to acoustic reduction in speech, but little is known about whether linguistic and non-linguistic givenness affect reduction similarly, and there is little consensus about the underlying psychological mechanisms. We examined speakers' pronunciations of target object nouns in an instruction-giving task, where speakers saw…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Speech Communication, Nouns, Language Processing
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Finley, Sara – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
While the vast majority of linguistic processes apply locally, consonant harmony appears to be an exception. In this phonological process, consonants share the same value of a phonological feature, such as secondary place of articulation. In sibilant harmony, [s] and [esh] ("sh") alternate such that if a word contains the sound [esh], all [s]…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Experiments, Phonological Awareness
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Wolter, Lynsey; Gorman, Kristen Skovbroten; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Listeners expect that a definite noun phrase with a pre-nominal scalar adjective (e.g., "the big"...) will refer to an entity that is part of a set of objects contrasting on the scalar dimension, e.g., size (Sedivy, Tanenhaus, Chambers, & Carlson, 1999). Two visual world experiments demonstrate that uttering a referring expression with a…
Descriptors: Nouns, Linguistics, Language Processing, Models
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Fukumura, Kumiko; van Gompel, Roger P.G. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Research has shown that following a sentence fragment such as "John impressed Mary because...," people are most likely to refer to John, whereas following "John admired Mary because...," Mary is the preferred referent. Two written completion experiments investigated whether such semantic biases affect the choice of anaphor (pronouns vs. names).…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Linguistics, Sentence Structure
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Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Phonology provides a system by which a limited number of types of phonetic variation can signal communicative intentions at multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Because phonologies vary from language to language, acquiring the phonology of a language demands learning to attribute phonetic variation appropriately. Here, we studied the case of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Linguistics, Word Recognition, Phonology
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Dijkstra, Ton; Miwa, Koji; Brummelhuis, Bianca; Sappelli, Maya; Baayen, Harald – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This study examines how the cross-linguistic similarity of translation equivalents affects bilingual word recognition. Performing one of three tasks, Dutch-English bilinguals processed cognates with varying degrees of form overlap between their English and Dutch counterparts (e.g., "lamp-lamp" vs. "flood-vloed" vs. "song-lied"). In lexical…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Linguistics, Word Recognition
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Woodward, Amelia J.; Macken, William J.; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Enhanced serial recall for linguistically familiar material is usually attributed to a process of item redintegration. The possibility tested here is that familiarity influences memory at the sequence level by enhancing the fluency with which items may be assembled into sequences. Experiment 1 showed that with practice, serial recall of nonwords…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology)
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Mirman, Daniel; Dixon, James A.; Magnuson, James S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Time course estimates from eye tracking during spoken language processing (the "visual world paradigm", or VWP) have enabled progress on debates regarding fine-grained details of activation and competition over time. There are, however, three gaps in current analyses of VWP data: consideration of time in a statistically rigorous manner,…
Descriptors: Speech, Mathematical Models, Linguistics, Oral Language
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Mitchell, Don C.; Shen, Xingjia; Green, Matthew J.; Hodgson, Timothy L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
When people read temporarily ambiguous sentences, there is often an increased prevalence of regressive eye-movements launched from the word that resolves the ambiguity. Traditionally, such regressions have been interpreted at least in part as reflecting readers' efforts to re-read and reconfigure earlier material, as exemplified by the Selective…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Linguistics, Figurative Language
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Brown-Schmidt, S.; Byron, D.K.; Tanenhaus, M.K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
Three experiments examined the hypothesis that it preferentially refers to the most salient entity in a discourse, whereas that preferentially refers to a conceptual composite. In Experiment 1, eye movements were monitored as participants followed spoken instructions such as, Put the cup on the saucer. Now put it/that.... The preferred referent…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages)
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Fedorenko, Evelina; Gibson, Edward; Rohde, Douglas – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
This paper reports the results of four dual-task experiments that were designed to determine the extent of domain-specificity of the verbal working memory resources used in linguistic integrations. To address this question, syntactic complexity was crossed in a 2x2 design with the complexity of a secondary task, which involved either (1)…
Descriptors: Memory, Linguistics, Interaction, Arithmetic
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Skotko, Brian G.; Andrews, Edna; Einstein, Gillian – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
Previous researchers have found it challenging to disentangle the memory and language capabilities of the famous amnesic patient H. M. Here, we present an original linguistic analysis of H. M. based on empirical data drawing upon novel spoken discourse with him. The results did not uncover the language deficits noted previously. Instead, H. M.'s…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Brain
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Jefferies, E.; Lambon Ralph, M.A.; Baddeley, A.D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Immediate serial recall is better for sentences than word lists presumably because of the additional support that meaningful material receives from long-term memory. This may occur automatically, without the involvement of attention, or may require additional attentionally demanding processing. For example, the episodic buffer model (Baddeley,…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Word Lists, Sentences, Reaction Time