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{"title":"Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?","authors":"Dušica Filipović Đurđević ,&nbsp;Laurie Beth Feldman","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigated language control in (within-language) between alphabet switching during comprehension by exploiting the overlap between the two character sets of Serbian. We compared recognition latencies to phonologically ambiguous and phonologically unambiguous versions of the same word (PAE – Phonological Ambiguity Effect) to obtain an index of interference between the two alphabets. Evidence for transient control arose from changing alphabets between trials within a block and the larger PAE when the alphabet of the target changed from the previous trial. Evidence for sustained control arose from presenting a single-alphabet block prior to a mixed alphabet block and the larger PAE when the target alphabet differed from the alphabet of the preceding single-alphabet block. We conclude that within-language alphabet switching exhibits effects of transient and global language control during comprehension. However, switching effects (and their temporal dynamics) were evident only when recognition was challenged by the presence of phonologically ambiguous word forms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"139 ","pages":"Article 104546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141930451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations among attentional state, retrieval quality, and mnemonic discrimination","authors":"Christopher N. Wahlheim ,&nbsp;Sydney M. Garlitch ,&nbsp;Rawan M. Mohamed ,&nbsp;Blaire J. Weidler","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104554","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104554","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Memory specificity is shown when participants reject lures that are similar to studied objects. Lure rejections may reflect hippocampal pattern separation that encodes objects distinctively. However, lure features shared with studied objects may evoke pattern completion of varying quality. This was shown when self-reported attention during study promoted lure rejections and false alarms. We used an experimental and individual differences approach to examine the roles of attentive encoding and retrieval quality in lure classifications. An object-based mnemonic discrimination task included thought probes during study and subjective retrieval reports after recognition responses. On-task reports reflecting attentive encoding were associated with lure rejections and false alarms within-and between-subjects. Additionally, accurate lure and target classifications were more strongly associated with subjective recollection following on- than off-task reports. Collectively, these results suggest that attention during study was associated with recollection of criterial features that differentiated existing memories from perceptual inputs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"139 ","pages":"Article 104554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141930347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phonological prediction during comprehension: A review and meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies","authors":"Aine Ito","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current theories of language prediction stipulate that people can predict various types of linguistic information, including the phonological form of a highly predictable word, and some theories posit that phonological prediction plays a pivotal role in prediction-driven learning. However, a review of studies investigating phonological prediction suggests that the effect is inconsistent and small, which raises a question about its role during everyday language comprehension and language learning. Here, I conduct a meta-analysis of visual-world eye-tracking studies investigating phonological prediction with the goal of revealing the robustness and the time-course of the phonological prediction effect. The combined analysis of 20 experiments revealed a small but reliable effect of the phonological prediction effect. This effect emerged rapidly but was not closely aligned to the predictable word onset. The size of this effect depended on the target word cloze probability and depended marginally on the experiment design and the type of visual stimuli. I discuss the implications for the theories of language prediction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"139 ","pages":"Article 104553"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000561/pdfft?md5=e7a5aa00b9608e27178022e06b530bd7&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000561-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141930348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ins and Outs of spatial language: Pragmatics shapes early-developing, cross-linguistically robust encoding patterns","authors":"Myrto Grigoroglou ,&nbsp;Barbara Landau ,&nbsp;Anna Papafragou","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on the language of space has uncovered a complex set of conceptual and linguistic factors affecting the nature, use and acquisition of spatial vocabularies across languages. Here we highlight the important but understudied role of <em>pragmatic</em> factors in how spatial relations are encoded across ages and languages. We focus on Containment (<em>in/out</em>) and Support (<em>on/off</em>) terms that can denote both static locations (‘places’: <em>be in/out of X</em>) and dynamic motions (‘paths’: <em>go in/out of X</em>). We offer a new pragmatic analysis of place-denoting <em>out/off</em> as ‘negative’ locatives and, as a result, predict that such expressions should have a restricted informational contribution (and use) compared to <em>in/on</em>. This prediction is confirmed in four experiments. In elicited production tasks with English-speaking adults and three-year-olds, <em>out</em> and <em>off</em> (unlike <em>in</em> and <em>on</em>) are used extremely sparsely to describe static locations (Experiment 1) but quite frequently to describe dynamic motions (Experiment 2). When contextual support is present, the use of place-denoting <em>out/off</em> increases (Experiment 3). Similar patterns in the use of locatives are found in French, Greek and Turkish speakers (Experiment 4). We conclude that pragmatic factors produce striking, early emerging and cross-linguistically stable properties of spatial vocabulary.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000482/pdfft?md5=4fd3227c94e72ef2fefd3ef36ae5a347&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000482-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141482442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affix priming with variable ING in English: Implications for unique vs. dual representation","authors":"Yosiane White ,&nbsp;David Embick ,&nbsp;Meredith Tamminga","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Variation in the pronunciation of spoken words constitutes one of the primary challenges to theories of Spoken Word Recognition (SWR). In this paper we examine the processing and representation of a type of variation that is connected to morphology: variation in ING, which is found in words that vary between an <em>-ing</em> and an <em>-in’</em> form. This variation, which is found in monomorphemes like <em>awning</em> in addition to affixed words, has been extensively studied, and has well-known social effects. Crucially, there is no consensus in the field as to whether the variation is morphological – involving distinct <em>-ing</em> and <em>-in’</em> morphemes – or phonological in nature, with <em>-in’</em> produced from an underlying <em>-ing</em> form. We connect the morphological and phonological analyses from the sociolinguistic literature to what have been called <em>dual representation</em> and <em>unique representation</em> in the SWR literature. We report the results of a series of experiments that use an auditory priming paradigm to explore the competing predictions of the dual and unique representation approaches. Priming provides insight into what types of representations are shared between the variants, which in turn informs the theoretical opposition at the center of the discussion about the locus of ING’s variation. The first of these experiments reveals priming both within and across ING variants, with significantly more priming found when both variants are <em>-in’</em>. Follow-up experiments manipulating the distance between prime and target, as well as introducing monomorphemes like <em>awning</em>, provide evidence that we interpret as favoring the unique representation view, with the <em>-ing/-in’</em> alternation being phonological in nature. Alternative explanations are explored as well, with an eye towards the directions that future work on variation might take.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104535"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X2400038X/pdfft?md5=a322fe0bef267052f6e8566afdf3391b&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X2400038X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141314616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words","authors":"David A. Haslett ,&nbsp;Zhenguang G. Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Words with similar meanings sometimes sound similar, which carries both risks, such as confusion, and rewards, such as ease of comprehension. It has been argued that languages evolve to balance these competing pressures, so words more often overlap in both form and meaning when they are less likely to be confused. By measuring the phonological similarity of responses to English cues in a word association megastudy, we provide evidence of a tendency to activate similar-sounding words in response to words that reside in sparse semantic neighbourhoods and in response to words for abstract concepts. Crucially, we provide evidence that the availability of similar-sounding associates helps people retrieve and represent the meanings of words from sparse neighbourhoods and words for abstract concepts, as measured by reaction time in semantic decisions and by accuracy in recognition memory. We propose that phonological connections compensate for weak semantic connections when representing word meanings, which we discuss in terms of multiplex networks, models of word-meaning access, and theories of language evolution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104537"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141298054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recall and recognition of discourse memory across sleep and wake","authors":"Matthew H.C. Mak ,&nbsp;Adam J. Curtis ,&nbsp;Jennifer M. Rodd ,&nbsp;M. Gareth Gaskell","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The episodic context account (Gaskell et al., 2019) proposes that the act of language comprehension gives rise to an episodic discourse representation, and that this representation is prone to sleep-related memory effects. In three experiments, we tested this prediction by asking participants to read/listen to naturalistic stories before their memory was tested after a 12-hr interval, which included either daytime wakefulness or overnight sleep. To assess discourse memory, we used sentence recognition (Experiment 1; N = 386), free story recall (Experiment 2; N = 96), and cued recall (Experiments 2 and 3; N = 192). We found no evidence of sleep-related effects in sentence recognition or free recall, but cued recall (aka fill-in-the-blank) showed that the degree of time-related distortion, as indexed by both a subjective categorisation measure and Latent Semantic Analysis, was lower after sleep than after wake. Overall, our experiments suggest that the effect of sleep on discourse memory is modest but observable and may [1] be constrained by the retrieval processes (recollection vs. familiarity &amp; associative vs. item), [2] lie on a qualitative level that is difficult to detect in an all-or-nothing scoring metric, and [3] primarily situated in the textbase level of the tripartite model of discourse processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104536"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000391/pdfft?md5=167377f12bc8a5f565ca1b3ef04b371a&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000391-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool","authors":"Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox ,&nbsp;Cui Ding ,&nbsp;Mrinmaya Sachan ,&nbsp;Lena Ann Jäger","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104534","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce Mouse Tracking for Reading (<span>MoTR</span>) a new incremental processing measurement tool that can be used to collect word-by-word reading times. In a <span>MoTR</span> trial, participants are presented with text, which is blurred, except for a small region around the tip of the mouse. Participants must move the mouse to reveal and read the text. Mouse movement is recorded, and, using a postprocessing pipeline we present, can be analyzed to produce scanpaths as well as word-by-word reading times. We validate <span>MoTR</span> in two suites of experiments. In the first experiment, we collect data for the English-language Provo Corpus (Luke and Christianson, 2018). We analyze scanpaths and show that participants interpolate between two types of strategies for reading during a <span>MoTR</span> trial – sometimes they fixate on individual words, somewhat akin to eye-tracking, while other times they produce a more constant pass over the text, slowing down in response to processing difficulties. Taking these strategies into account, we show that the word-by-word reading times produced by our data analysis pipeline correlate well with previously collected eye-tracking data for this corpus, and that these correlations are higher than those produced by SPR data, which we also collect for the corpus. Furthermore, we demonstrate that there is a linear relationship between by-word <span>MoTR</span> values and word-level surprisal values, as has been previously shown for eye-tracking data (Smith and Levy, 2013). In the second experiment, we assess whether <span>MoTR</span> can be used to study sentence processing phenomena in targeted psycholinguistics experiments. Using materials from Witzel et al. (2012), we show that <span>MoTR</span> can reveal English speakers’ preferences for low attachment during online sentence comprehension. We argue that <span>MoTR</span> presents a compelling tradeoff between multiple experimental considerations: It is cheap to run and can be presented in a browser enabling the collection of data over the internet. It is more naturalistic than some alternative processing measures, allowing participants to skip words and regress to previous sentence regions. Finally, it has good sensitivity, detecting signatures of psycholinguistic processing behaviors from a relatively small number of participants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104534"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000378/pdfft?md5=670e0a82975ffff02e4b7fcdd166e9e4&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000378-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141095976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A meta-analysis of syntactic priming experiments in children","authors":"Shanthi Kumarage ,&nbsp;Seamus Donnelly ,&nbsp;Evan Kidd","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104532","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A substantial literature exists using the syntactic priming methodology with children to test hypotheses regarding the acquisition of syntax, under the assumption that priming effects reveal both the presence of syntactic knowledge and the underlying nature of learning mechanisms supporting the acquisition of grammar. Here we present the first meta-analysis of syntactic priming studies in children. We identified 37 eligible studies and extracted 108 effect sizes corresponding to 76 samples of 2,378 unique participants. Our analysis confirmed a medium-to-large syntactic priming effect. The overall estimate of the priming effect was a log odds ratio of 1.44 (Cohen’s d = 0.80). This is equivalent to a structure that occurs 50 % of the time when unprimed occurring 81 % of the time when primed. Several variables moderated the magnitude of priming in children, including (i) within- or between-subjects design, (ii) lexical overlap, (iii) structural alternation investigated and, (iv) the animacy configuration of syntactic arguments. There was little evidence of publication bias in the size of the main priming effect, however, power analyses showed that, while studies typically have enough power to identify the basic priming effect, they are typically underpowered when their focus is on moderators of priming. The results provide a foundation for future research, suggesting several avenues of enquiry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104532"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000354/pdfft?md5=f72c1de9dd80774577eed776606ce88e&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000354-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140951189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The differential effects of consonant and vowel diacritics in Arabic","authors":"Sami Boudelaa ,&nbsp;Dennis Norris ,&nbsp;Sachiko Kinoshita","doi":"10.1016/j.jml.2024.104533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Much recent research on the front end of visual word recognition has focused on how letters with and without diacritic marks are identified. In this study we report three masked priming letter match experiments which examine the processing of two types of diacritic marks in Arabic, a language/writing system rich in diacritics. Experiment 1 focused on diacritic dots that are obligatory and signal a phonemic contrast in consonants. The results showed an oft-replicated asymmetric diacritic priming pattern, namely, that for a target letter with a diacritic (e.g., ش, /$/), the prime without the diacritic (e.g., س, /s/) facilitated recognition almost as much as the identity prime (e.g., ش–ش= س–ش).; in contrast, a target without a diacritic is primed less strongly by the prime with the diacritic than by the identity prime (e.g., س–س &lt; ش–س). Experiment 2 used vowel diacritics which also signal a phonemic contrast when present and collectively play the role of a morpheme, but are not obligatory and appear only in text for children or in the Quran. The results revealed a novel pattern in which both target letters with (e.g., سَ, /sa/) and without (e.g., س, /s/) vowel diacritics were equally facilitated by identity and related primes (e.g., س–سَ = سَ–سَ and سَ–س = س–س). Experiment 3 replicated these effects using a within-participant design. These results are discussed in light of current views of letter and diacritic processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16493,"journal":{"name":"Journal of memory and language","volume":"138 ","pages":"Article 104533"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X24000366/pdfft?md5=107fed8194d926d34738c0c0b66e802e&pid=1-s2.0-S0749596X24000366-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140880008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}