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Chen, Xuemei; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Arai et al. (2007) showed that structural priming in the comprehension of English dative sentences only occurred when the verb was repeated between prime and target, suggesting a lexically-dependent mechanism of structure prediction. However, a recent study in Mandarin comprehension found abstract (verb-independent) structural priming and such…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Reading Comprehension, Priming, Prediction
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Konopka, Agnieszka E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Two experiments tracked the encoding of relational information (actions at the level of the prelinguistic message and verbs at the level of the sentence) during formulation of transitive event descriptions (e.g., The tiger is scratching the photographer). At what point during message and sentence formulation do speakers encode actions and verbs?…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Sentences
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Koornneef, Arnout; Mulders, Iris – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
In an eye-tracking experiment we examined the risky reading hypothesis, in which long saccades and many regressions are considered to be indicative of a proactive reading style (Rayner et al. in "Psychol Aging" 21(3):448, 2006; "Psychol Aging" 24(3):755, 2009). We did so by presenting short texts--that confirmed or disconfirmed…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Risk, Profiles
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Viebahn, Malte C.; Ernestus, Mirjam; McQueen, James M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The present study investigated whether the recognition of spoken words is influenced by how predictable they are given their syntactic context and whether listeners assign more weight to syntactic predictability when acoustic-phonetic information is less reliable. Syntactic predictability was manipulated by varying the word order of past…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Prediction