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The role of prosodic focus in the reanalysis of garden path sentences: Depth of semantic processing impedes the revision of an erroneous local analysis 韵律焦点在花园小径句再分析中的作用:语义加工深度阻碍了错误局部分析的修正

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.5070/g601136

Jun Choe, Masaya Yoshida, Jennifer Cole

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Prediction in the maze: Evidence for probabilistic pre-activation from the English a/an contrast 迷宫中的预测:来自英语a/an对比的概率预激活证据

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.5070/g601153

E. M. Husband

引用次数: 1

Complexity vs. salience of alternatives in implicature: A cross-linguistic investigation 复杂性与意义选择的显著性:一项跨语言研究

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-29 DOI: 10.5070/g601190

D. Dionne, E. Coppock

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Comparing infrared and webcam eye tracking in the Visual World Paradigm 比较红外和网络摄像头眼动追踪在视觉世界范式

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-15 DOI: 10.5070/g6011131

Myrte Vos, Serge Minor, G. Ramchand

引用次数: 5

Why bother? What our eyes tell about psych verb (non) causative constructions 何苦呢?我们的眼睛告诉我们什么心理动词(非)使役结构

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-07-26 DOI: 10.5070/g601138

C. Gattei, Federico Alvarez, Luis París, A. Wainselboim, Y. Sevilla, Diego E. Shalom

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(How) Visual properties affect the perception and description of transitive events 视觉属性如何影响及物事件的感知和描述

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI: 10.5070/g601193

Judith Schlenter, M. Penke

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Agreement attraction error and timing profiles in continuous speech 连续讲话中的协议吸引错误和时间特征

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.5070/g601157

Margaret Kandel, Cassidy Wyatt, C. Phillips

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引用次数: 3

The processing of ambiguous pronominal reference is sensitive to depth of processing 歧义代词指称的加工对加工深度很敏感

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI: 10.5070/g601166

Ava Creemers, A. Meyer

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引用次数: 1

Lexicalization in the developing parser 正在开发的解析器中的词汇化

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.5070/g601148

Aaron Steven White, J. Lidz

引用次数: 2

Assessing the replication landscape in experimental linguistics 评估实验语言学中的复制景观

Glossa Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fzngs

Kristina Kobrock, Timo B. Roettger

引用次数: 1