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Brown, Meredith; Savova, Virginia; Gibson, Edward – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Although sentences are thought to be generally easier to process when given information precedes new information, closer examination reveals that these preferences only manifest within some syntactic structures. Here, we examine the consequences of the relative ordering of given and new information ("information structure") for the on-line…
Descriptors: Syntax, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Language Processing
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Mack, Jennifer E.; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Frazier, Lyn; Taylor, Patrick V. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Previous research has shown that usage preferences (non-categorical constraints on the distribution of syntactic structures) shape many grammatical alternations. In the present study, we show that usage preferences also influence which alternate listeners report hearing when presented with acoustically degraded input. We investigated the English…
Descriptors: Sentences, Pragmatics, Syntax, Acoustics
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Messenger, Katherine; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Sorace, Antonella – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Previous research suggests that English-speaking children comprehend agent-patient verb passives earlier than experiencer-theme verb passives (Maratsos, Fox, Becker, & Chalkley, 1985). We report three experiments examining whether such effects reflect delayed acquisition of the passive syntax or instead are an artifact of the experimental task,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Priming, Sentences, Semantics
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Metusalem, Ross; Kutas, Marta; Urbach, Thomas P.; Hare, Mary; McRae, Ken; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world events plays an important role in guiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of event knowledge activation during the course of comprehension, specifically investigating whether activation is limited to those knowledge elements that align with the local…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Linguistics, Language Processing
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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Pickering, Martin J.; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Theories of how people construct linguistic form during production are largely based on English and closely related languages. We report three experiments that used a structural priming paradigm to investigate grammatical encoding in Mandarin Chinese, in particular the way conceptual information is mapped onto grammatical structure. The results…
Descriptors: Priming, Concept Mapping, Syntax, Mandarin Chinese
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von der Malsburg, Titus; Vasishth, Shravan – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Which repair strategy does the language system deploy when it gets garden-pathed, and what can regressive eye movements in reading tell us about reanalysis strategies? Several influential eye-tracking studies on syntactic reanalysis ([Frazier and Rayner, 1982], [Meseguer et al., 2002] and [Mitchell et al., 2008]) have addressed this question by…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Pattern Recognition, Sentences, Syntax
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Tanaka, Mikihiro N.; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Two experiments using a sentence recall task tested the effect of animacy on syntactic processing in Japanese sentence production. Experiment 1 and 2 showed that when Japanese native speakers recalled transitive sentences, they were more likely to assign animate entities earlier positions in the sentence than inanimate entities. In addition,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Word Order, Native Speakers
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Luka, Barbara J.; Choi, Heidi – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Three experiments examine whether a naturalistic reading task can induce long-lasting changes of syntactic patterns in memory. Judgment of grammatical acceptability is used as an indirect test of memory for sentences that are identical or only syntactically similar to those read earlier. In previous research (Luka & Barsalou, 2005) both sorts of…
Descriptors: Priming, Comprehension, Sentences, Grammar
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Sturt, Patrick; Keller, Frank; Dubey, Amit – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Although previous research has shown a processing facilitation for conjoined phrases that share the same structure, it is currently not clear whether this parallelism advantage is specific to particular syntactic environments such as coordination, or whether it is an example of more general effect in sentence comprehension. Here, we report three…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Syntax, Cues
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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
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Oppermann, Frank; Jescheniak, Jorg D.; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Our study addresses the scope of phonological advance planning during sentence production using a novel experimental procedure. The production of German sentences in various syntactic formats (SVO, SOV, and VSO) was cued by presenting pictures of the agents of previously memorized agent-action-patient scenes. To tap the phonological activation of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonology, German, Language Processing
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Lane, Liane Wardlow; Ferreira, Victor S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Three experiments tested theories of syntactic representation by assessing "stem-exchange" errors ("hates the record"[right arrow]"records the hate"). Previous research has shown that in stem exchanges, speakers pronounce intended nouns ("REcord") as verbs ("reCORD"), yielding syntactically well-formed utterances. By "lexically based" theories,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Verbs, Nouns, Syntax
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Franck, Julie; Soare, Gabriela; Frauenfelder, Ulrich H.; Rizzi, Luigi – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
The research presented here uses theoretical constructs of formal syntax to account for performance data in agreement production. The phenomenon examined is object interference in French, i.e., incorrect agreement of the verb with the object. In the first experiment, interference is shown to occur in object relative clauses despite the absence of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Verbs, Syntax, Medicine
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Arnon, Inbal; Snider, Neal – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of words, the units they consist of (morphemes, phonemes), and the syntactic structures they appear in (verb-categorization frames, syntactic constructions). In a series…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Language Processing
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Cai, Zhenguang G.; Pickering, Martin J.; Yan, Hao; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Bilinguals appear to have shared syntactic representations for similar constructions between languages but retain distinct representations for noncognate translation-equivalents (Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007). We inquire whether bilinguals have more integrated representations of cognate translation-equivalents. To investigate…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Sentences, Verbs
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