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Strand, Julia F.; Brown, Violet A.; Brown, Hunter E.; Berg, Jeffrey J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
To understand spoken language, listeners combine acoustic-phonetic input with expectations derived from context (Dahan & Magnuson, 2006). Eye-tracking studies on semantic context have demonstrated that the activation levels of competing lexical candidates depend on the relative strengths of the bottom-up input and top-down expectations (cf.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Listening Comprehension, Oral Language, Eye Movements