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Gertner, Yael; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2012
Children use syntax to interpret sentences and learn verbs; this is syntactic bootstrapping. The structure-mapping account of early syntactic bootstrapping proposes that a partial representation of sentence structure, the "set of nouns" occurring with the verb, guides initial interpretation and provides an abstract format for new learning. This…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs
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Jaeger, T. Florian; Snider, Neal E. – Cognition, 2013
Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'. Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such alignment (syntactic priming). Our guiding hypothesis is that syntactic priming is a consequence of a language processing system that is organized to achieve efficient…
Descriptors: Syntax, Priming, Hypothesis Testing, Sentences
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Nakamura, Chie; Arai, Manabu; Mazuka, Reiko – Cognition, 2012
Numerous studies have reported an effect of prosodic information on parsing but whether prosody can impact even the initial parsing decision is still not evident. In a visual world eye-tracking experiment, we investigated the influence of contrastive intonation and visual context on processing temporarily ambiguous relative clause sentences in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Prediction, Syntax, Stimuli
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Kamide, Yuki – Cognition, 2012
Listeners are often capable of adjusting to the variability contained in individual talkers' (speakers') speech. The vast majority of findings on talker adaptation are concerned with learning the contingency between "phonological" characteristics and talker identity. In contrast, the present study investigates representations at a more abstract…
Descriptors: Sentences, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Language Processing
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Takac, Martin; Benuskova, Lubica; Knott, Alistair – Cognition, 2012
In this article we present a neural network model of sentence generation. The network has both technical and conceptual innovations. Its main technical novelty is in its semantic representations: the messages which form the input to the network are structured as sequences, so that message elements are delivered to the network one at a time. Rather…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Sentences, Cognitive Mapping
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Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognition, 2012
Structural priming paradigms have been influential in shaping theories of adult sentence processing and theories of syntactic development. However, until recently there have been few attempts to provide an integrated account that explains both adult and developmental data. The aim of the present paper was to begin the process of integration by…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Sentences, Verbs
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Kentner, Gerrit – Cognition, 2012
Various recent studies attest that reading involves creating an implicit prosodic representation of the written text which may systematically affect the resolution of syntactic ambiguities in sentence comprehension. Research up to now suggests that implicit prosody itself depends on a partial syntactic analysis of the text, raising the question of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Speech, Silent Reading
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Koring, Loes; Mak, Pim; Reuland, Eric – Cognition, 2012
Previous research has found that the single argument of unaccusative verbs (such as "fall") is reactivated during sentence processing, but the argument of agentive verbs (such as "jump") is not ( and ). An open question so far was whether this difference in processing is caused by a difference in thematic roles the verbs assign, or a difference in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Models, Verbs, Syntax
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Arunachalam, Sudha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Cognition, 2010
When toddlers view an event while hearing a novel verb, the verb's syntactic context has been shown to help them identify its meaning. The current work takes this finding one step further to reveal that even in the absence of an accompanying event, syntactic information supports toddlers' identification of verb meaning. Two-year-olds were first…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers
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Rohde, H.; Levy, R.; Kehler, A. – Cognition, 2011
We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses share both a syntactic relationship and a discourse relationship, and hence in which syntactic and discourse processing might be expected to interact. An off-line…
Descriptors: Cues, Rhetoric, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language
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Martin, Randi C.; Crowther, Jason E.; Knight, Meredith; Tamborello, Franklin P., II; Yang, Chin-Lung – Cognition, 2010
Controversy remains as to the scope of advanced planning in language production. Smith and Wheeldon (1999) found significantly longer onset latencies when subjects described moving-picture displays by producing sentences beginning with a complex noun phrase than for matched sentences beginning with a simple noun phrase. While these findings are…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Experiments
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Molinaro, Nicola; Kim, Albert; Vespignani, Francesco; Job, Remo – Cognition, 2008
In the present study we analyzed the processing of grammatically anomalous sentences like "*The famous dancer were nervously preparing herself/themselves to face the crowd.", which contains two anomalies, one early and one late. We investigated how processing of the later anomaly (at the pronoun "herself" or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Language Processing, Language Research
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Dikker, Suzanne; Rabagliati, Hugh; Pylkkanen, Liina – Cognition, 2009
One of the most intriguing findings on language comprehension is that violations of syntactic predictions can affect event-related potentials as early as 120 ms, in the same time-window as early sensory processing. This effect, the so-called early left-anterior negativity (ELAN), has been argued to reflect word category access and initial…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Syntax
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Musolino, Julien – Cognition, 2009
Recent work on the acquisition of number words has emphasized the importance of integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives [Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: Integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. "Cognition 93", 1-41; Papafragou, A., Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Scalar…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Syntax
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Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Stolterfoht, Britta – Cognition, 2008
Gradable adjectives denote a function that takes an object and returns a measure of the degree to which the object possesses some gradable property [Kennedy, C. (1999). Projecting the adjective: The syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison. New York: Garland]. Scales, ordered sets of degrees, have begun to be studied systematically in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages)
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