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Zhao, Licui; Kojima, Haruyuki; Yasunaga, Daichi; Irie, Koji – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
In order to examine whether syntactic processing is a necessary prerequisite for semantic integration in Japanese, cortical activation was monitored while participants engaged in silent reading task. Congruous sentences (CON), semantic violation sentences (V-SEM), and syntactic violation sentences (V-SYN) were presented in the experiment. The…
Descriptors: Japanese, Syntax, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Tuyuan Cheng – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The relationship between working memory (WM) and language processing has been extensively investigated in cognitive research. Previous studies mostly obtain evidence from measuring the involvement of WM in complex syntactic structures reported with well-established processing asymmetry, e.g., relative clauses (RCs) in English. Rarely considered is…
Descriptors: Memory, Interference (Learning), Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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Chen, Zhong; Hale, John T. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Information-theoretic complexity metrics, such as Surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and Entropy Reduction (Hale, 2003), are linking hypotheses that bridge theorized expectations about sentences and observed processing difficulty in comprehension. These expectations can be viewed as syntactic derivations constrained by a grammar. However, this…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Phrase Structure, Nouns
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Matthew W. Lowder; Adrian Zhou; Peter C. Gordon – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
"Hospital" can refer to a physical place or more figuratively to the people associated with it. Such place-for-institution metonyms are common in everyday language, but there remain several open questions in the literature regarding how they are processed. The goal of the current eyetracking experiments was to investigate how metonyms…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Ambiguity (Semantics), Language Processing
Byung-Doh Oh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Decades of psycholinguistics research have shown that human sentence processing is highly incremental and predictive. This has provided evidence for expectation-based theories of sentence processing, which posit that the processing difficulty of linguistic material is modulated by its probability in context. However, these theories do not make…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Fernández Cuenca, Sara; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study investigated the second language processing of grammatical mood in Spanish. Eye-movement data from a group of advanced proficiency second language users revealed nativelike processing with irregular verb stimuli but not with regular verb stimuli. A comparison group of native speakers showed the expected effect with both types of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Krebs, Julia; Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Roehm, Dietmar – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Nonsigners viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf. Ortega, Özyürek, & Peeters, 2020; Strickland et al., 2015). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic is classifiers: verb-like signs that can refer to location…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
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Kemp, Amy; Eddins, David; Shrivastav, Rahul; Wray, Amanda Hampton – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Improving the ability to listen efficiently in noisy environments is a critical goal for hearing rehabilitation. However, understanding of the impact of difficult listening conditions on language processing is limited. The current study evaluated the neural processes underlying semantics in challenging listening conditions. Method: Thirty…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Semantics, Language Processing, Sentences
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Sekicki, Mirjana; Staudte, Maria – Cognitive Science, 2018
Referential gaze has been shown to benefit language processing in situated communication in terms of shifting visual attention and leading to shorter reaction times on subsequent tasks. The present study simultaneously assessed both visual attention and, importantly, the immediate cognitive load induced at different stages of sentence processing.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Language Processing
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Jonathan Trace – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The role of context in cloze tests has long been seen as both a benefit as well as a complication in their usefulness as a measure of second language comprehension (Brown, 2013). Passage cohesion, in particular, would seem to have a relevant and important effect on the degree to which cloze items function and the interpretability of performances…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Test Items
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Scontras, Gregory; Badecker, William; Shank, Lisa; Lim, Eunice; Fedorenko, Evelina – Cognitive Science, 2015
Syntactic complexity effects have been investigated extensively with respect to comprehension (e.g., Demberg & Keller, 2008; Gibson, 1998, 2000; Gordon et al., 2001, 2004; Grodner & Gibson, 2005; King & Just, 1991; Lewis & Vasishth, 2005; Lewis et al., 2006; McElree et al., 2003; Wanner & Maratsos, 1978). According to one…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Sentences, Language Processing
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Carney, Nathaniel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Current second language (L2) listening research has lacked detailed accounts of L2 listeners' difficulties comprehending texts comprising orthographically known lexis. In the current study, 15 first language (L1) Japanese English language learners of three English proficiency levels listened to sentences and a narrative text. A two-task diagnostic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
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Chauvin, Alexandre; Baum, Shari; Phillips, Natalie A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Speech perception in noise becomes difficult with age but can be facilitated by audiovisual (AV) speech cues and sentence context in healthy older adults. However, individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) may present with deficits in AV integration, potentially limiting the extent to which they can benefit from AV cues. This study…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Alzheimers Disease, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication
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Staub, Adrian; Dillon, Brian; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Two experiments used eyetracking during reading to examine the processing of the matrix verb following object and subject relative clauses. The experiments show that the processing of the matrix verb following an object relative is indeed slowed compared to the processing of the same verb following a subject relative. However, this difficulty is…
Descriptors: Verbs, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Sentences
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Crible, Ludivine; Pickering, Martin J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study aims to establish whether the processing of different connectives (e.g., "and," "but") and different coherence relations (addition, contrast) can be modulated by a structural feature of the connected segments--namely, parallelism. While "but" is mainly used to contrast two expressions, "and"…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
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