Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "comprehension"
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Effects of Prosodic and Lexical Constraints on Parsing in Young Children (and Adults)
(Elsevier, 2008)Prior studies of ambiguity resolution in young children have found that children rely heavily on lexical information but persistently fail to use referential constraints in online parsing [Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., ... -
Give and Take: Syntactic Priming during Spoken Language Comprehension
(Elsevier, 2008)Syntactic priming during language production is pervasive and well-studied. Hearing, reading, speaking or writing a sentence with a given structure increases the probability of subsequently producing the same structure, ... -
Is It All Relative? Effects of Prosodic Boundaries on the Comprehension and Production of Attachment Ambiguities
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)While there is ample evidence that prosody and syntax mutually constrain each other, there is considerable uncertainty about the nature of this interface. Here, we explore this issue with prepositional phrase attachment ... -
The Role of Thematic Roles in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Structural Priming in Young Children
(2011-11-16)The syntactic realization of a verb’s arguments is constrained by the role that the argument plays in the meaning of the verb. In most linguistic frameworks, these constraints are captured by mappings between syntactic ... -
The Use of Lexical and Referential Cues in Children’s Online Interpretation of Adjectives
(American Psychological Association, 2013)Recent research on moment-to-moment language comprehension has revealed striking differences between adults and preschool children. Adults rapidly use the referential principle to resolve syntactic ambiguity, assuming that ...