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Lev-Ari, Shiri – Cognitive Science, 2016
People differ in the size of their social network, and thus in the properties of the linguistic input they receive. This article examines whether differences in social network size influence individuals' linguistic skills in their native language, focusing on global comprehension of evaluative language. Study 1 exploits the natural variation in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Semantics, Language Processing, Dining Facilities
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Zervakis, Jennifer; Mazuka, Reiko – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
This study investigated the effect of repeated evaluation and repeated exposure on grammatical acceptability ratings for both acceptable and unacceptable sentence types. In Experiment 1, subjects in the Experimental group rated multiple examples of two ungrammatical sentence types (ungrammatical binding and double object with dative-only verb),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension