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Runnqvist, Elin; Strijkers, Kristof; Alario, F.-Xavier; Costa, Albert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Several studies have shown that concepts spread activation to words of both of a bilingual's languages. Therefore, a central issue that needs to be clarified is how a bilingual manages to restrict his speech production to a single language. One influential proposal is that when speaking in one language, the other language is inhibited. An…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Interference (Language), Spanish
Mulligan, Neil W.; Picklesimer, Milton – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Dual-process models differentiate between two bases of memory, recollection and familiarity. It is routinely claimed that deeper, semantic encoding enhances recollection relative to shallow, non-semantic encoding, and that recollection is largely a product of semantic, elaborative rehearsal. The present experiments show that this is not always the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Familiarity
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
Bock, Kathryn; Carreiras, Manuel; Meseguer, Enrique – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Grammatical agreement makes different demands on speakers of different languages. Being widespread in the languages of the world, the features of agreement systems offer valuable tests of how language affects deep-seated domains of human cognition and categorization. Number agreement is one such domain, with intriguing evidence that typological…
Descriptors: Spanish, Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
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
Nozari, Nazbanou; Kittredge, Audrey K.; Dell, Gary S.; Schwartz, Myrna F. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This paper investigates the cognitive processes underlying picture naming and auditory word repetition. In the two-step model of lexical access, both the semantic and phonological steps are involved in naming, but the former has no role in repetition. Assuming recognition of the to-be-repeated word, repetition could consist of retrieving the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Semantics, Aphasia
Ameel, Eef; Malt, Barbara C.; Storms, Gert; Van Assche, Fons – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Bilinguals' lexical mappings for their two languages have been found to converge toward a common naming pattern. The present paper investigates in more detail how semantic convergence is manifested in bilingual lexical knowledge. We examined how semantic convergence affects the centers and boundaries of lexical categories for common household…
Descriptors: Semantics, Monolingualism, Dictionaries, Language Processing
Arregui, Ana; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn; Moulton, Keir – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Traditional syntactic accounts of verb phrase ellipsis (e.g., ''Jason laughed. Sam did [ ] too.'') categorize as ungrammatical many sentences that language users find acceptable (they ''undergenerate''); semantic accounts overgenerate. We propose that a processing theory, together with a syntactic account, does a better job of describing and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Semantics

Aaronson, Doris; Ferres, Steven – Journal of Memory and Language, 1986
Compares the processing of English words by Chinese-English bilinguals with that of monolingual English speakers. Subjects read and rated English words for their contribution to sentence structure and meaning. It was found that bilinguals generally rated English words as contributing more to sentence structure and meaning than did monolinguals.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Chinese Americans, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
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
Berent, Iris; Pinker, Steven; Tzelgov, Joseph; Bibi, Uri; Goldfarb, Liat – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
The distinction between singular and plural enters into linguistic phenomena such as morphology, lexical semantics, and agreement and also must interface with perceptual and conceptual systems that assess numerosity in the world. Three experiments examine the computation of semantic number for singulars and plurals from the morphological…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Word Recognition, Computational Linguistics
Benjamin, Aaron S.; Bawa, Sameer – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
To set an optimal decision criterion on a test of recognition, a subject must estimate the degree to which they can discriminate previously studied from unstudied stimuli. To do so accurately, the subject must assess not only their mastery of the material but also the extent to which the distractors yield mnemonic evidence that makes them…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Mnemonics, Semantics, Cognitive Processes