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Garrido Rodriguez, Gabriela; Norcliffe, Elisabeth; Brown, Penelope; Huettig, Falk; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognitive Science, 2023
We present a visual world eye-tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word order in transitive sentences in Tseltal is Verb--Object--Subject (VOS). The verb is usually encountered first, making argument structure and syntactic information…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Eye Movements, Word Order, Verbs
Felser, Claudia; Drummer, Janna-Deborah – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Pronouns can sometimes covary with a non c-commanding quantifier phrase (QP). To obtain such 'telescoping' readings, a semantic representation must be computed in which the QP's semantic scope extends beyond its surface scope. Non-native speakers have been claimed to have more difficulty than native speakers deriving such non-isomorphic…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Native Language, Second Languages, Sentences
Yao, Panpan; Alkhammash, Reem; Li, Xingshan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We aimed to tackle the question about the time course of plausibility effect in on-line processing of Chinese nouns in temporarily ambiguous structures, and whether L2ers can immediately use the plausibility information generated from classifier-noun associations in analyzing ambiguous structures. Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Reading Processes, Nouns
Fujita, Hiroki; Cunnings, Ian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The mechanisms underlying native (L1) and non-native (L2) sentence processing have been widely debated. One account of potential L1/L2 differences is that L2 sentence processing underuses syntactic information and relies heavily on semantic and surface cues. Recently, an alternative account has been proposed, which argues that the source of L1/L2…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Sentences, Language Processing
Uludag, Onur – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The study aims to investigate whether second language learners perform sentence processing based on syntactic or structure-based parsing strategies during real-time comprehension of constructions with syntactic ambiguities. To this end, the recordings of eye movements from Turkish learners of English and native English speakers as a control group…
Descriptors: Syntax, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
Macdonald, Ross; Brandt, Silke; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena; Serratrice, Ludovica – Cognitive Science, 2020
Subject relative clauses (SRCs) are typically processed more easily than object relative clauses (ORCs), but this difference is diminished by an inanimate head-noun in semantically non-reversible ORCs ("The book that the boy is reading"). In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the influence of animacy on online processing of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Semantics
Parshina, Olga; Sekerina, Irina A.; Lopukhina, Anastasiya; von der Malsburg, Titus – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
In the present study, we used a scanpath approach to investigate reading processes and factors that can shape them in monolingual Russian-speaking adults, 8-year-old children, and bilingual Russian-speaking readers. We found that monolingual adults' eye movement patterns exhibited a fluent scanpath reading process, representing effortless…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Russian, Reading Processes
Howard, Philippa L.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Benson, Valerie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
In 2 experiments, eye tracking methodology was used to assess on-line lexical, syntactic and semantic processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In Experiment 1, lexical identification was examined by manipulating the frequency of target words. Both typically developed (TD) and ASD readers showed normal frequency effects, suggesting that the…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Eye Movements, Syntax, Semantics
Referential Context and Executive Functioning Influence Children's Resolution of Syntactic Ambiguity
Qi, Zhenghan; Love, Jessica; Fisher, Cynthia; Brown-Schmidt, Sarah – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Classic studies reveal two striking differences between preschoolers and adults in online sentence comprehension. Adults (a) recruit referential context cues to guide syntactic parsing, interpreting an ambiguous phrase as a modifier if a modifier is needed to single out the intended referent among multiple options, and (b) use late-arriving…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Prediction, Individual Differences, Executive Function
Chamorro, Gloria; Sturt, Patrick; Sorace, Antonella – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Previous research has shown L1 attrition to be restricted to structures at the interfaces between syntax and pragmatics, but not to occur with syntactic properties that do not involve such interfaces ("Interface Hypothesis", Sorace and Filiaci in "Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian." "Second Lang…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, English, Native Speakers, Spanish
Metzner, Paul; von der Malsburg, Titus; Vasishth, Shravan; Rösler, Frank – Cognitive Science, 2017
How important is the ability to freely control eye movements for reading comprehension? And how does the parser make use of this freedom? We investigated these questions using coregistration of eye movements and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) while participants read either freely or in a computer-controlled word-by-word format (also known…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Brain, Diagnostic Tests
Charlotte Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2021
When learning a language, typically-developing infants face the daunting task of learning both the sounds and the meanings of words. In this dissertation, we focus on a source of variability that complicates the one-to-one relationship between words and their meanings: wordform variability. In Chapter 1 we make a distinction between the micro…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Variation
Perdomo, Michelle; Kaan, Edith – Second Language Research, 2021
Listeners interpret cues in speech processing immediately rather than waiting until the end of a sentence. In particular, prosodic cues in auditory speech processing can aid listeners in building information structure and contrast sets. Native speakers even use this information in combination with syntactic and semantic information to build mental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
Semantic Ambiguity and Syntactic Bootstrapping: The Case of Conjoined-Subject Intransitive Sentences
Pozzan, Lucia; Gleitman, Lila R.; Trueswell, John C. – Language Learning and Development, 2016
When learning verb meanings, learners capitalize on universal linguistic correspondences between syntactic and semantic structure. For instance, upon hearing the transitive sentence "the boy is glorping the girl," 2-year-olds prefer a two-participant event (e.g., a boy making a girl spin) over two simultaneous one-participant events (a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Ambiguity (Semantics), Linguistic Theory
Koring, Loes; Mak, Pim; Mulders, Iris; Reuland, Eric – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Previous studies have demonstrated that, for adults, differences between unaccusative verbs (e.g., "fall") and unergative verbs (e.g., "dance") lead to a difference in processing. However, so far we don't know whether this effect shows up in children's processing of these verbs as well. This study measures children's processing…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Verbs, Adults, Children