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Tydgat, Ilse; Stevens, Michael; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
This study investigated whether speakers strategically decide where to interrupt their speech once they need to stop. We conducted four naming experiments in which pictures of colored shapes occasionally changed in color or shape. Participants then merely had to stop (Experiment 1); or they had to stop and resume speech (Experiments 2-4). They…
Descriptors: Speech, Decision Making, Sentence Structure, Nouns
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Chang, Franklin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Languages differ from one another and must therefore be learned. Processing biases in word order can also differ across languages. For example, heavy noun phrases tend to be shifted to late sentence positions in English, but to early positions in Japanese. Although these language differences suggest a role for learning, most accounts of these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Language Processing
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Gleitman, Lila R.; January, David; Nappa, Rebecca; Trueswell, John C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Two experiments are reported that examine how manipulations of visual attention affect speakers' linguistic choices regarding word order, verb use and syntactic structure when describing simple pictured scenes. Experiment 1 presented participants with scenes designed to elicit the use of a perspective predicate ("The man chases the dog/The dog…
Descriptors: Verbs, Personality, Nouns, Attention