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Sheppard, Shannon M.; Walenski, Matthew; Love, Tracy; Shapiro, Lewis P. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This study examines 3 hypotheses about the processing of "wh"-questions in both neurologically healthy adults and adults with Broca's aphasia. Method: We used an eye tracking while listening method with 32 unimpaired participants (Experiment 1) and 8 participants with Broca's aphasia (Experiment 2). Accuracy, response time, and…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Accuracy, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Interference (Language)
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de Goede, Dieuwke; Shapiro, Lewis P.; Wester, Femke; Swinney, David A.; Bastiaanse, Roelien – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The verb has traditionally been characterized as the central element in a sentence. Nevertheless, the exact role of the verb during the actual ongoing comprehension of a sentence as it unfolds in time remains largely unknown. This paper reports the results of two Cross-Modal Lexical Priming (CMLP) experiments detailing the pattern of verb priming…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Language Processing
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Shapiro, Lewis P.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
The study with 10 agrammatic aphasic (Broca) adults examined their difficulties using determiners in sentence comprehension. Results included the findings that printed rather than spoken presentation yielded significant improvement for the proper noun/common noun distinction, and that performance was poorer for the mass noun/count noun…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Language Handicaps, Listening Comprehension