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Bader, Markus; Meng, Michael – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Most current models of sentence comprehension assume that the human parsing mechanism (HPM) algorithmically computes detailed syntactic representations as basis for extracting sentence meaning. These models share the assumption that the representations computed by the HPM accurately reflect the linguistic input. This assumption has been challenged…
Descriptors: Sentences, Misconceptions, Comprehension, Models
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Patterson, Clare; Esaulova, Yulia; Felser, Claudia – Second Language Research, 2017
Non-native speakers' sensitivity to discourse-level cues in pronoun interpretation has not been widely researched. We carried out three antecedent-choice questionnaire experiments which investigate the impact of focus on within-sentence pronoun resolution in native and non-native speakers of German and native speakers of Russian. Focus was…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Questionnaires
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Lukassek, Julia; Pryslopska, Anna; Hörnig, Robin; Maienborn, Claudia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
Underspecification and coercion are two prominent interpretive mechanisms to account for meaning variability beyond compositionality. While there is plentiful evidence that natural language meaning constitution exploits both mechanisms, it is an open issue whether a concrete phenomenon of meaning variability is an instance of underspecification or…
Descriptors: Verbs, Motion, Semantics, Language Processing
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Chinkina, Maria; Ruiz, Simón; Meurers, Detmar – Research-publishing.net, 2017
We integrate insights from research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Computational Linguistics (CL) to generate text-based questions. We discuss the generation of wh- questions as functionally-driven input enhancement facilitating the acquisition of particle verbs and report the results of two crowdsourcing studies. The first study shows…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
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Schweppe, Judith – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
One pronoun production experiment and one pronoun comprehension experiment were performed to investigate the role of grammatical number information in long-distance anaphora, with referent and pronoun either in adjacent sentences or separated by an intervening sentence. The experiments tested the assumption that the influence of grammatical number…
Descriptors: Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Numbers, Number Concepts
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Roehm, Dietmar; Sorace, Antonella; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2013
Sometimes, the relationship between form and meaning in language is not one-to-one. Here, we used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to illuminate the neural correlates of such flexible syntax-semantics mappings during sentence comprehension by examining split-intransitivity. While some ("rigid") verbs consistently select one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Syntax
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Dittmar, Miriam; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2008
Using a preferential looking methodology with novel verbs, Gertner, Fisher and Eisengart (2006 ) found that 21-month-old English children seemed to understand the syntactic marking of transitive word order in an abstract, verb-general way. In the current study we tested whether young German children of this same age have this same understanding.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Child Development
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Melinger, Alissa; Dobel, Christian – Cognition, 2005
Syntactic priming studies demonstrate that exposure to a particular syntactic structure leads speakers to reproduce the same structure in subsequent utterances. Explanations for this phenomenon rely on either the retrieval of morphosyntactic features associated with the verb in the prime sentence or the preservation of the mapping between message…
Descriptors: Sentences, Native Speakers, Verbs, Sentence Structure