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Papafragou, Anna; Selimis, Stathis – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
It is well known that languages differ in how they encode motion. Languages such as English use verbs that communicate the manner of motion (e.g., "slide", "skip"), while languages such as Greek regularly encode motion paths in verbs (e.g., "enter", "ascend"). Here we ask how such cross-linguistic encoding…
Descriptors: Verbs, Linguistics, Motion, English
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Mitchel, Aaron D.; Weiss, Daniel J. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Recent research has demonstrated that adults successfully segment two interleaved artificial speech streams with incongruent statistics (i.e., streams whose combined statistics are noisier than the encapsulated statistics) only when provided with an indexical cue of speaker voice. In a series of five experiments, our study explores whether…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Artificial Speech, Earth Science, Statistics
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Marslen-Wilson, William D.; Bozic, Mirjana; Randall, Billi – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The role of morphological, semantic, and form-based factors in the early stages of visual word recognition was investigated across different SOAs in a masked priming paradigm, focusing on English derivational morphology. In a first set of experiments, stimulus pairs co-varying in morphological decomposability and in semantic and orthographic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Word Recognition, Semiotics
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Iwasaki, Noriko; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Watanabe, Masumi; Arciuli, Joanne – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
This study investigated whether the semantic similarity and grammatical class of distracter words affects the naming of pictured actions (verbs) in Japanese. Three experiments used the picture-word interference paradigm with participants naming picturable actions while ignoring distracters. In all three experiments, we manipulated the semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interference (Language), Nouns
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Nicol, Janet L. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Reviews the syntactic priming task, a paradigm involving the presentation of a phrasal or clausal context, followed by the presentation of a target item for lexical decision or naming. Notes that response times are faster for targets syntactically congruent with the preceding context than for incongruent targets. Outlines how to administer this…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Context Effect, Decision Making, Language Processing
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Radeau, Monique; van Berkum, Jos J. A. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Points out that in languages in which nouns have a grammatical gender, word recognition can be estimated by gender-decision response times. Notes that although gender decision has yet to be used extensively, it has proved sensitive to several factors affecting lexical access and that this task can be used with linguistic information from other…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Braille, Decision Making, Experiential Learning
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Caplan, David; Walters, Gloria S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The functional architecture of the verbal processing resource system was studied by testing aphasic patients in Canada and Boston for their abilities to use syntactic structure in sentence comprehension in isolation and under dual-task conditions. Results indicate that the processing resource system underlying syntactic processing is separate from…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes