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Scalar Inferencing, Polarity and Cognitive Load 标量推理、极性和认知负荷

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.5070/g60112566

Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Bob van Tiel, R. Breheny

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The role of differential cross-linguistic influence and other constraints in predictive L2 gender processing 跨语言影响和其他制约因素在预测性 L2 性别加工中的作用

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.5070/g60111325

Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Terje Lohndal

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Reproducible research practices and transparency across linguistics 可重复的研究实践和跨语言学的透明度

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.5070/g6011239

Agata Bochynska, Liam Keeble, Caitlin Halfacre, Joseph V. Casillas, Irys-Amélie Champagne, Kaidi Chen, Melanie Röthlisberger, Erin M. Buchanan, Timo B. Roettger

{"title":"Reproducible research practices and transparency across linguistics","authors":"Agata Bochynska, Liam Keeble, Caitlin Halfacre, Joseph V. Casillas, Irys-Amélie Champagne, Kaidi Chen, Melanie Röthlisberger, Erin M. Buchanan, Timo B. Roettger","doi":"10.5070/g6011239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011239","url":null,"abstract":"Scientific studies of language span across many disciplines and provide evidence for social,&nbsp; cultural, cognitive, technological, and biomedical studies of human nature and behavior. As it becomes increasingly empirical and quantitative, linguistics has been facing challenges and limitations of the scientific practices that pose barriers to reproducibility and replicability. One of the&nbsp; proposed solutions to the widely acknowledged reproducibility and replicability crisis has been the implementation of transparency practices,&nbsp; e.g., open access publishing, preregistrations, sharing study materials, data, and analyses, performing study replications, and declaring conflicts of interest. Here, we have assessed the prevalence of these practices in 600 randomly sampled journal articles from linguistics across two time points. In line with similar studies in other disciplines, we found that 35% of the articles were published open access and the rates of sharing materials, data, and protocols were below 10%. None of the articles reported preregistrations, 1% reported replications, and 10% had conflict of interest statements. These rates have not increased noticeably between 2008/2009 and 2018/2019, pointing to remaining barriers and the slow adoption of open and reproducible research practices in linguistics. To facilitate adoption of these practices, we provide a range of recommendations and solutions for implementing transparency and improving reproducibility of research in linguistics.","PeriodicalId":164622,"journal":{"name":"Glossa Psycholinguistics","volume":" 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135291841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dialect experience modulates cue reliance in sociolinguistic convergence 方言经验调节社会语言趋同中的线索依赖

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.5070/g6011187

Lacey R Wade, David Embick, Meredith Tamminga

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Pre-verb reactivation of arguments in sentence processing 句子加工中论点的动词前再激活

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI: 10.5070/g6011180

Shinnosuke Isono, Yuki Hirose

{"title":"Pre-verb reactivation of arguments in sentence processing","authors":"Shinnosuke Isono, Yuki Hirose","doi":"10.5070/g6011180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011180","url":null,"abstract":"Major models of sentence comprehension assume that a verb triggers retrieval of preceding thematic arguments from memory to establish argument-verb dependencies. If so, longer argument-verb distance should lead to higher processing load at the verb (a locality effect),since the representation of the argument should suffer from decay and/or interference.However, verb-final languages have often failed to show the expected argument-verb locality effect. A possible account of the lack of the effect is that arguments and adjuncts before the verb reactivate each other, counteracting memory degradation. In a pair of self-paced reading experiments in Japanese, a verb-final language, we found evidence of such pre-verb reactivation.Specifically, there was a locality effect and a similarity-based interference effect at the head of the adverbial that follows the subject, both of which suggest the retrieval of the subject at that point. The results are difficult to accommodate with other accounts of the lack of locality effect, such as a confounding effect of expectation and the inherent locality-insensitivity of verb-final languages. It is further argued that the constructivist analysis of verbal argument structure, which has been developed in generative syntax, provides an explanation for why such pre-verb reactivation takes place.&nbsp;","PeriodicalId":164622,"journal":{"name":"Glossa Psycholinguistics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Individuals versus ensembles and "each" versus "every": linguistic framing affects performance in a change detection task 个体与集合、"每个 "与 "每个"：语言框架影响变化检测任务中的表现

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.5070/g6011181

Tyler Zarus Knowlton, Justin Halberda, P. Pietroski, J. Lidz

{"title":"Individuals versus ensembles and \"each\" versus \"every\": linguistic framing affects performance in a change detection task","authors":"Tyler Zarus Knowlton, Justin Halberda, P. Pietroski, J. Lidz","doi":"10.5070/g6011181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011181","url":null,"abstract":"Though each and every are both distributive universal quantifiers, a common theme in linguistic and psycholinguistic investigations into them has been that each is somehow more individualistic than every. We offer a novel explanation for this generalization: each has a first-order meaning which serves as an internalized instruction to cognition to build a thought that calls for representing the (restricted) domain as a series of individuals; by contrast, every has a second-order meaning which serves as an instruction to build a thought that calls for grouping the domain. In support of this view, we show that these distinct meanings invite the use of distinct verification strategies, using a novel paradigm. In two experiments, participants who had been asked to verify sentences like each/every circle is green were subsequently given a change detection task. Those who evaluated each-sentences were better able to detect the change, suggesting they encoded the individual circles' colors to a greater degree. Taken together with past work demonstrating that participants recall group properties after evaluating sentences with every better than after evaluating sentences with each, these results support the hypothesis that each and every call for treating the individuals that constitute their domain differently: as independent individuals (each) or as members of an ensemble collection (every). We situate our findings within a conception of linguistic meanings as instructions for thought building, on which the format of the resulting thought has consequences for how meanings interface with non-linguistic cognition.","PeriodicalId":164622,"journal":{"name":"Glossa Psycholinguistics","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139339990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Conversations between ages five and seven – Connections to executive functions and implicature comprehension 五到七岁之间的对话--与执行功能和暗示理解的联系

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-14 DOI: 10.5070/g6011132

David Pagmar, C. Arvidsson, Tove Nilsson Gerholm, Julia Uddén

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Number Agreement Attraction in Czech and English Comprehension: A Direct Experimental Comparison 捷克语和英语理解中的数字约定吸引力：直接实验比较

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.5070/g6011235

J. Chromý, James Brand, A. Laurinavichyute, Radim Lacina

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How abstract are logical representations? The role of verb semantics in representing quantifier scope 逻辑表征有多抽象？动词语义在表示量词范围中的作用

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.5070/g6011175

Mieke Sarah Slim, Peter Lauwers, R. Hartsuiker

{"title":"How abstract are logical representations? The role of verb semantics in representing quantifier scope","authors":"Mieke Sarah Slim, Peter Lauwers, R. Hartsuiker","doi":"10.5070/g6011175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011175","url":null,"abstract":"Language comprehension involves the derivation of the meaning of sentences by combining the meanings of their parts. In some cases, this can lead to ambiguity. A sentence like Every hiker climbed a hill allows two logical representations: One that specifies that every hiker climbed a different hill and one that specifies that every hiker climbed the same hill. The interpretations of such sentences can be primed: Exposure to a particular reading increases the likelihood that the same reading will be assigned to a subsequent similar sentence. Feiman and Snedeker (2016) observed that such priming is not modulated by overlap of the verb between prime and target. This indicates that mental logical representations specify the compositional structure of the sentence meaning without conceptual meaning content. We conducted a close replication of Feiman and Snedeker’s experiment in Dutch and found no verb-independent priming. Moreover, a comparison with a previous, within-verb priming experiment showed an interaction, suggesting stronger verb-specific than abstract priming. A power analysis revealed that both Feiman and Snedeker’s experiment and our Experiment 1 were underpowered. Therefore, we replicated our Experiment 1, using the sample size guidelines provided by our power analysis. This experiment again showed that priming was stronger if a prime-target pair contained the same verb. Together, our experiments show that logical representation priming is enhanced if the prime and target sentence contain the same verb. This suggests that logical representations specify compositional structure and meaning features in an integrated manner.","PeriodicalId":164622,"journal":{"name":"Glossa Psycholinguistics","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139351129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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English temporal gestures are spatial gestures 英语的时间手势就是空间手势

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.5070/g6011126

Javier Valenzuela, Daniel Alcaraz-Carrión

{"title":"English temporal gestures are spatial gestures","authors":"Javier Valenzuela, Daniel Alcaraz-Carrión","doi":"10.5070/g6011126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011126","url":null,"abstract":"There is great deal of evidence, both linguistic and psycholinguistic, that time is structured with the help of space. This relationship has also been found in gesture studies: the gestures produced when uttering temporal expressions exhibit very clear and structured spatial properties. The question that remains, though, is whether these co-speech spatial gestures accompanying temporal expressions are the same as the spatial gestures produced with spatial expressions. Do we produce spatial gestures more frequently when uttering purely spatial expressions than when we are using temporal expressions? Are the characteristics of those spatial gestures equivalent in terms of parameters such as axis or directionality? What do these similarities or differences tell us about the use of space in time? The present study examines one grammatical construction (From X to Y) which can be used both for space and for time, and examines the gestural patterns associated with each of these different senses, noting their similarities and differences. Our results show that the gestures produced while uttering spatial expressions share the same characteristics with those carried out while uttering temporal expressions: (1) the frequency of gesturing is quite similar, pointing at a similar informational need, for both the spatial/concrete and the temporal/metaphorical cases; (2) the axes used are basically the same (with a higher indexically-based use of verticality in the case of spatial gestures), and (3) the directionality of the gestures is also shared, again eschewing the concrete-metaphorical distinction. These results are especially interesting, since they are also compatible with the hypothesis put forward by Cai & Connell (2015), hinting at a common representational format of both domains. At any case, this study reinforces the solid relationship between the domains of space and of time, proving once again how gesturing can be an invaluable tool in finding out about conceptualization patterns.","PeriodicalId":164622,"journal":{"name":"Glossa Psycholinguistics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139353435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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