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Schumacher, Petra B.; Hung, Yu-Chen – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We present three event-related potential studies that investigated the contribution of givenness and position-induced topicality (what a sentence is about) to information processing. The studies compared two types of referential expressions (given and inferred noun phrases (NPs)) in distinct sentential positions. The data revealed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Language Processing
Zhang, Xujin; Samuel, Arthur G.; Liu, Siyun – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Previous research has found that a speaker's native phonological system has a great influence on perception of another language. In three experiments, we tested the perception and representation of Mandarin phonological contrasts by Guangzhou Cantonese speakers, and compared their performance to that of native Mandarin speakers. Despite their rich…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Processing
Lee, Chia-lin; Federmeier, Kara D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Two event-related potential experiments investigated the effects of syntactic and semantic context information on the processing of noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). Experiment 1 embedded NV-homographs and matched unambiguous words in contexts that provided only syntactic cues or both syntactic and semantic constraints. Replicating prior…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
Chan, Jason C. K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Retrieval practice can enhance long-term retention of the tested material (the testing effect), but it can also impair later recall of the nontested material--a phenomenon known as retrieval-induced forgetting (Anderson, M. C., Bjork, R. A., & Bjork, E. L. (1994). "Remembering can cause forgetting: retrieval dynamics in long-term memory." "Journal…
Descriptors: Testing, Long Term Memory, Experimental Psychology, Word Processing
Parmentier, Fabrice B. R.; Maybery, Murray T.; Huitson, Matthew; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
The present study includes seven experiments examining the effect of repetition learning (Hebb effect) on auditory spatial serial recall. Participants were asked to remember sequences of spatial locations marked by auditory stimuli, where one sequence was repeated across trials. Consistent with the proposition that the spatial scattering of…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Spatial Ability, Recall (Psychology)
Camblin, C. Christine; Gordon, Peter C.; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Five experiments used ERPs and eye tracking to determine the interplay of word-level and discourse-level information during sentence processing. Subjects read sentences that were locally congruent but whose congruence with discourse context was manipulated. Furthermore, critical words in the local sentence were preceded by a prime word that was…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Eye Movements, Semantics, Reading Processes
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
Gerrig, Richard J.; Love, Jessica; McKoon, Gail – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
When readers experience narratives they often encounter small mysteries--questions that a text raises that are not immediately settled. In our experiments, participants read stories that introduced characters by proper names (e.g., "It's just that Brandon hasn't called in so long"). "Resolved" versions of the stories specified the functions those…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Story Reading, Literary Devices, Reading Comprehension
Laszlo, Sarah; Federmeier, Kara D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Two related questions critical to understanding the predictive processes that come online during sentence comprehension are (1) what information is included in the representation created through prediction and (2) at what functional stage does top-down, predicted information begin to affect bottom-up word processing? We investigated these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Prediction, Language Processing
Taft, Marcus; Castles, Anne; Davis, Chris; Lazendic, Goran; Nguyen-Hoan, Minh – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
There is increasing evidence that orthographic information has an impact on spoken word processing. However, much of this evidence comes from tasks that are subject to strategic effects. In the three experiments reported here, we examined activation of orthographic information during spoken word processing within a paradigm that is unlikely to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Word Recognition, Experiments, Models
Archibald, Lisa M. D.; Gathercole, Susan E. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
This study investigated the verbal and visuospatial processing and storage skills of children with SLI and typically developing children. Fourteen school-age children with SLI, and two groups of typically developing children matched either for age or language abilities, completed measures of processing speed and storage capacity, and a set of…
Descriptors: Memory, Control Groups, Language Impairments, Child Development
Cozijn, Reinier; Commandeur, Edwin; Vonk, Wietske; Noordman, Leo G. M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Several theoretical accounts have been proposed with respect to the issue how quickly the implicit causality verb bias affects the understanding of sentences such as "John beat Pete at the tennis match, because he had played very well". They can be considered as instances of two viewpoints: the focusing and the integration account. The focusing…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Verbs, Sentences
Nairne, James S.; Kelley, Matthew R. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
In the present paper, we develop and apply a technique, based on the logic of process dissociation, for obtaining numerical estimates of item and order information. Certain variables, such as phonological similarity, are widely believed to produce dissociative effects on item and order retention. However, such beliefs rest on the questionable…
Descriptors: Memory, Phonology, Language Processing, Cognitive Tests
Sumner, M.; Samuel, A.G. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
Spoken words exhibit considerable variation from their hypothesized canonical forms. Much of the variation is regular, occurring often in language. The present work examines the immediate and long-term processing consequences for rule-governed final-/t/ variation in English. Two semantic priming experiments demonstrate that variation does not…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Semantics
Creel, Sarah C.; Tumlin, Melanie A. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Recent work demonstrates that listeners utilize talker-specific information in the speech signal to inform real-time language processing. However, there are multiple representational levels at which this may take place. Listeners might use acoustic cues in the speech signal to access the talker's identity and information about what they tend to…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Language Processing, Acoustics