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Sentence comprehension and general working memory
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007Although the role of working memory in sentence comprehension has received substantial attention, the nature of this relationship remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between general, nonverbal working memory (WM) and sentence parsing (SP) in normal English-speaking adults.
Moser, Dana C. +2 more
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Language Comprehension: Sentence and Discourse Processing
Annual Review of Psychology, 1995CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .... 91 Marr's Analysis 92 Computational Architectures for Languages ........ 93 SENTENCE COMPREHENSION 94 Lexical Ambiguity 95 Syntactic Processing , 97 Working Memory and Sentence Processing 101 Individual and Population DijJerences 103 Cross-linguistic Studies 106 Conceptual Combination and Integration 107 ...
P A, Carpenter, A, Miyake, M A, Just
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Children's Comprehension of Time-Altered Sentences
Language and Speech, 1987The influence of speech timing on children's auditory processing of sentences was examined with a question-answering comprehension task. Sentences were presented under two conditions, one employing natural speech and the other speech with an electronically-altered temporal pattern.
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Sentence Stress and Sentence Comprehension
1975Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, 1975 - Dissertation Abstracts International, 36(10-B), 5300)
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Cue validity in Hebrew sentence comprehension
Journal of Child Language, 1988ABSTRACTThis study investigated the degree to which cue validity, as estimated from textual analyses, predicts the actual strength of grammatical cues as they are used by speakers of Hebrew. An experiment was conducted to determine the differential strengths of the linguistic cues employed by Hebrew speakers when assigning the role of patient in ...
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Children's Comprehension of Relativized English Sentences
Child Development, 1971BROWN, H. DOUGLAS. Children's Comprehension of Relativized English Sentences. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 1923-1936. 3 factors in the syntactic structure of restrictive relative clauses, (a) embeddedness position of the clause, (b) focus of the relative pronoun, and (c) the relative pronoun itself, were incorporated into a picture-cued comprehension ...
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Accessing Ambiguous Words during Sentence Comprehension
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1979In five experiments visual processing of sentences containing either a more frequent or a less frequent usage of an ambiguous word was examined. When prior or subsequent context was pragmatically related to the relevant sense of the ambiguous word, sentences intending the more frequent sense produced longer ambiguity detection times and shorter ...
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Processing Prenominal Adjectives during Sentence Comprehension
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2010The time course of semantic processing of two prenominal adjectives contained within a noun phrase was investigated. In English, the ordering of adjectives is determined by their meaning. Adjectives specifying color (e.g., red) generally follow adjectives that specify size (e.g., big) and adjectives that specify aspects of general description (e.g ...
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Young children’s sentence comprehension
2018Sentence comprehension requires the assignment of thematic relations between the verb and its noun arguments in order to determine who is doing what to whom. In some languages, such as English, word order is the primary syntactic cue. In other languages, such as German, case-marking is additionally used to assign thematic roles.
Strotseva-Feinschmidt, Anna +4 more
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