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Peer reviewedCutler, Anne; Fodor, Jerry A. – Cognition, 1979
Reaction time to detect a phoneme target in a sentence was faster when the target-containing word formed part of the semantic focus of the sentence. Sentence understanding was facilitated by rapid identification of focused information. Active search for accented words can be interpreted as a search for semantic focus. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Linguistic Performance, Listening Comprehension
