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Ito, Kiwako; Jincho, Nobuyuki; Minai, Utako; Yamane, Naoto; Mazuka, Reiko – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Two eye-tracking experiments tested how pitch prominence on a prenominal adjective affects contrast resolution in Japanese adult and 6-year old listeners. Participants located two animals in succession on displays with multiple colored animals. In Experiment 1, adults' fixations to the contrastive target (pink cat [right arrow] GREEN cat) were…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Animals, Intervals, Gardening
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Milin, Petar; Filipovic Durdevic, Dusica; Moscoso del Prado Martin, Fermin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
In this study, we investigate the relevance of inflectional paradigms and inflectional classes for lexical processing. We provide an information-theoretical measure of the divergence in the frequency distributions of two of the paradigms to which a word simultaneously belongs: the paradigm of the stem and the more general paradigm of the nominal…
Descriptors: Models, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Language Processing
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Conlin, Juliet A.; Gathercole, Susan E. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
Four experiments investigated the impact of the lexical status of memory and processing stimuli on complex memory performance, with the aim of exploring mechanisms of interference in working memory. In a complex memory task, participants recalled words or nonwords while either monitoring words or nonwords for phonological content, or suppressing…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Recall (Psychology), Children, Adults