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Dillon, Brian; Andrews, Caroline; Rotello, Caren M.; Wagers, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
One perennially important question for theories of sentence comprehension is whether the human sentence processing mechanism is "parallel" (i.e., it simultaneously represents multiple syntactic analyses of linguistic input) or "serial" (i.e., it constructs only a single analysis at a time). Despite its centrality, this question…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
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Ferré, Pilar; Anglada-Tort, Manuel; Guasch, Marc – Second Language Research, 2018
The present study investigates whether the emotional content of words has the same effect in the different languages of bilinguals by testing the effects of word concreteness, the type of task used, and language status. Highly proficient bilinguals of Catalan and Spanish who learned Catalan and Spanish in early childhood in a bilingual immersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingual Students, Language Usage
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White, Darcy; Besner, Derek – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
There are multiple reports, in the context of the time taken to read aloud, that the joint effects of stimulus quality and word frequency (a) interact when only words appear in the list but (b) are additive when nonwords are intermixed with words (O'Malley & Besner, 2008). This triple interaction has been explained in terms of the idea that…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Stimuli, Word Frequency, Language Processing
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O'Séaghdha, Pádraig G.; Frazer, Alexandra K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Form preparation in word production, the benefit of exploiting a useful common sound (such as the first phoneme) of iteratively spoken small groups of words, is notoriously fastidious, exhibiting a seemingly categorical, all-or-none character and a corresponding susceptibility to "killers" of preparation. In particular, the presence of a…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phonology
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Gagl, Benjamin; Hawelka, Stefan; Richlan, Fabio; Schuster, Sarah; Hutzler, Florian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The study investigated parafoveal preprocessing by the means of the classical invisible boundary paradigm and a novel manipulation of the parafoveal previews (i.e., visual degradation). Eye movements were investigated on 5-letter target words with constraining (i.e., highly informative) initial letters or similarly constraining final letters.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Visual Perception
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Gunraj, Danielle N.; Drumm-Hewitt, April M.; Klin, Celia M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
According to theories of embodied cognition, a critical element in language comprehension is the formation of sensorimotor simulations of the actions and events described in a text. Although much of the embodied cognition research has focused on simulations of motor actions, we ask whether readers form simulations of story characters' linguistic…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Schemata (Cognition), Human Body, Imagery
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LoCasto, Paul C.; Connine, Cynthia M. – Language and Speech, 2011
The cross modal repetition priming paradigm was used to investigate how potential lexically ambiguous no-release variants are processed. In particular we focus on segmental regularities that affect the variant's frequency of occurrence (voicing of the critical segment) and phonological context in which the variant occurs (status of the following…
Descriptors: Priming, Phonemes, Word Recognition, Speech Communication
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Lev-Ari, Shiri; Keysar, Boaz – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The language of non-native speakers is less reliable than the language of native speakers in conveying the speaker's intentions. We propose that listeners expect such reduced reliability and that this leads them to adjust the manner in which they process and represent non-native language by representing non-native language in less detail.…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Pragmatics, Short Term Memory, English (Second Language)
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Idemaru, Kaori; Holt, Lori L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Speech processing requires sensitivity to long-term regularities of the native language yet demands listeners to flexibly adapt to perturbations that arise from talker idiosyncrasies such as nonnative accent. The present experiments investigate whether listeners exhibit "dimension-based statistical learning" of correlations between acoustic…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Acoustics, Statistics, Infants
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Roux, Sebastien; Bonin, Patrick – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
The issue of how information flows within the lexical system in written naming was investigated in five experiments. In Experiment 1, participants named target pictures that were accompanied by context pictures having phonologically and orthographically related or unrelated names (e.g., a picture of a "ball" superimposed on a picture of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Cognitive Processes, Recognition (Psychology), Interference (Language)
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Estes, Zachary; Jones, Lara L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Lexical priming, whereby a prime word facilitates recognition of a related target word (e.g., "nurse" [right arrrow] "doctor"), is typically attributed to association strength, semantic similarity, or compound familiarity. Here, the authors demonstrate a novel type of lexical priming that occurs among unassociated, dissimilar,…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Processing, Word Recognition, Nouns
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Wheeldon, Linda R.; Smith, Mark C.; Apperly, Ian A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
An online picture description methodology was used to investigate the interaction between lexical and syntactic information in spoken sentence production. In response to arrays of moving pictures, participants generated prepositional sentences, such as "The apple moves towards the dog," as well as coordinate noun phrase sentences, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Priming, Sentences, Sentence Structure
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Huang, Yi Ting; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
How does prior context influence lexical and discourse-level processing during real-time language comprehension? Experiment 1 examined whether the referential ambiguity introduced by a repeated, anaphoric expression had an immediate or delayed effect on lexical and discourse processing, using an eye-tracking-while-reading task. Eye movements…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Eye Movements, Figurative Language, Human Body
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Hand, Christopher J.; Miellet, Sebastien; O'Donnell, Patrick J.; Sereno, Sara C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
A word's frequency of occurrence and its predictability from a prior context are key factors determining how long the eyes remain on that word in normal reading. Past reaction-time and eye movement research can be distinguished by whether these variables, when combined, produce interactive or additive results, respectively. Our study addressed…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Interaction, Human Body, Language Processing
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Dhooge, Elisah; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
In 3 experiments, subjects named pictures with low- or high-frequency superimposed distractor words. In a 1st experiment, we replicated the finding that low-frequency words induce more interference in picture naming than high-frequency words (i.e., distractor frequency effect; Miozzo & Caramazza, 2003). According to the response exclusion…
Descriptors: Proximity, Word Recognition, Language Processing, Task Analysis
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