Jennifer M. Roche, R. Dale, Gina M. Caucci, M. Marneffe, Scott Grimm, Inbal Arnon, Susannah Kirby, Liane Wardlow, Michael J. Liersch
{"title":"Volume 27, 2012, List of Contents","authors":"Jennifer M. Roche, R. Dale, Gina M. Caucci, M. Marneffe, Scott Grimm, Inbal Arnon, Susannah Kirby, Liane Wardlow, Michael J. Liersch","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2012.737610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2012.737610","url":null,"abstract":"1 Jennifer M. Roche, Rick Dale, and Gina M. Caucci, Doubling up on double meanings: Pragmatic alignment 25 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Scott Grimm, Inbal Arnon, Susannah Kirby, and Joan Bresnan, A statistical model of the grammatical choices in child production of dative sentences 62 Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Beyond common and privileged: Gradient representations of common ground in real-time language use 90 Martin L. Jönsson and James A. Hampton, The modifier effect in within-category induction: Default inheritance in complex noun phrases 117 Michael Grosvald, Christian Lachaud, and David Corina, Handshape monitoring: Evaluation of linguistic and perceptual factors in the processing of American Sign Language 142 Koji Miwa, Gary Libben, and Harald Baayen, Semantic radicals in Japanese twocharacter word recognition","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1584 - 1587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2012.737610","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59135526","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}
{"title":"Cross-script phonological priming for Japanese-English bilinguals: Evidence for integrated phonological representations","authors":"Mariko Nakayama, C. Sears, Y. Hino, S. Lupker","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.606669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.606669","url":null,"abstract":"Previous masked phonological priming studies with bilinguals whose languages are written in the same script (e.g., Dutch-French bilinguals) strongly suggest that phonological representations for the two languages are integrated, based on the fact that phonological activation created by reading a word in one language facilitates word identification in the other language. The present research examined whether the same is true for different-script bilinguals (Japanese-English bilinguals). In this study, participants made lexical decisions to English targets (e.g., GUIDE) that were primed by three types of masked Japanese primes: cognate translation equivalents (e.g., , /gaido/, guide), phonologically similar but conceptually unrelated words (e.g., , /saido/, side), and phonologically and conceptually unrelated words (e.g., , /koRru/, call). There were significant priming effects for cognate translation primes (94 ms) and phonologically similar primes (30 ms). Whereas the cognate translation priming effect was modulated by target frequency and L2 proficiency, the phonological priming effect was not. Our results suggest that phonological representations for different languages are integrated even if the languages in question use different scripts. The role of phonological activation in bilingual word recognition is discussed.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1563 - 1583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.606669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59135266","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}
{"title":"Gaze and blinking in dyadic conversation: A study in coordinated behaviour among individuals","authors":"Fred Cummins","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.615220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.615220","url":null,"abstract":"Face to face conversation necessarily involves a great deal of bodily movement beyond that required for speaking. We seek to understand the systematic variation of such para-linguistic activity as a function of the ebb and flow of conversation. Gaze and blinking in dyadic conversation are examined, along with their relation to speech turn. Eight pairs provide 15 minutes of conversation each, including five participants who partake in two dyads each. This facilitates a thorough examination of the rich covariation of gaze and blinking both within an individual and as a function of the dyad. Many aspects of systematic variation are found to be relatively invariant within the individual, but individuals display large qualitative differences, one from the other.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1525 - 1549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.615220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59134994","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}
{"title":"Tier-adjacency is not a necessary condition for learning phonotactic dependencies","authors":"Hahn Koo, L. Callahan","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.603933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.603933","url":null,"abstract":"One hypothesis raised by Newport and Aslin to explain how speakers learn dependencies between nonadjacent phonemes is that speakers track bigram probabilities between two segments that are adjacent to each other within a tier of their own. The hypothesis predicts that a dependency between segments separated from each other at the tier level cannot be learned. Were this true, it could add psycholinguistic plausibility to phonological theories that limit possible nonadjacent dependencies to those between two tier-adjacent segments. Contrary to the prediction, the experiments in this paper show that adults can learn dependencies between two consonants that are nonadjacent to each other at the tier level as well as the segmental level. The results suggest that the range of learnable sound patterns may be wider than the range of attested sound patterns and that additional learning mechanisms should be considered to explain how speakers learn nonadjacent phonotactic dependencies.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1425 - 1432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.603933","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59134677","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}
{"title":"Animacy effects in Chinese relative clause processing","authors":"Fuyun Wu, E. Kaiser, E. Andersen","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.614423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.614423","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research on relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese has led to conflicting results regarding ease of processing subject-extracted RCs (SRCs) versus object-extracted RCs (ORCs) and has often used animacy configurations that are rare in corpora. Building on animacy patterns observed in a corpus, we used self-paced reading to explore how animacy influences real-time processing of Chinese RCs. Experiment 1 tested SRCs, and found marginal facilitation effects with animate heads (subjects) and inanimate objects. Experiment 2 tested ORCs and found significant facilitation effects with inanimate head (objects). Experiment 3 showed that when the subject is animate and the object inanimate, ORCs are as easy to process as SRCs, but when the subject is inanimate and the object is animate, SRCs are processed faster. Thus, the animacy of the head and the embedded noun must be taken into account when evaluating processing ease.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1489 - 1524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.614423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59134987","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}
{"title":"A givenness illusion","authors":"Michael Wagner","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.607713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.607713","url":null,"abstract":"Constituents that encode information that is salient in the discourse or “given” are often prosodically reduced and remain unaccented. What is given and new is usually defined at the level of meaning: given expressions are those that refer to salient referents or predicates that have been made salient by the previous discourse. This paper presents evidence from two production studies that sometimes, a constituent that semantically should be contrastive, and hence accentable, is treated prosodically as if it was given, and placing an accent on it is consistently avoided—an illusory case of givenness. This effect can be explained by assuming that givenness is not only evaluated in terms of semantic content, but also at the phonological level. Prosodically marking a semantic contrast requires the presence of a phonological contrast. This effect thus provides evidence that the notion of “antecedent” relevant for prosodic givenness-marking needs to include reference to linguistic form, and not just to referential meaning.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1433 - 1458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.607713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59135280","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}
{"title":"Scanpaths reveal syntactic underspecification and reanalysis strategies","authors":"Titus von der Malsburg, S. Vasishth","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2012.728232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2012.728232","url":null,"abstract":"What theories best characterise the parsing processes triggered upon encountering ambiguity, and what effects do these processes have on eye movement patterns in reading? The present eye-tracking study, which investigated processing of attachment ambiguities of an adjunct in Spanish, suggests that readers sometimes underspecify attachment to save memory resources, consistent with the good-enough account of parsing. Our results confirm a surprising prediction of the good-enough account: high-capacity readers commit to an attachment decision more often than low-capacity participants, leading to more errors and a greater need to reanalyse in garden-path sentences. These results emerged only when we separated functionally different types of regressive eye movements using a scanpath analysis; conventional eye-tracking measures alone would have led to different conclusions. The scanpath analysis also showed that rereading was the dominant strategy for recovering from garden-pathing. Our results may also have broader implications for models of reading processes: reanalysis effects in eye movements occurred late, which suggests that the coupling of oculo-motor control and the parser may not be as tight as assumed in current computational models of eye movement control in reading.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"28 1","pages":"1545 - 1578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2012.728232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59135442","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}
{"title":"Typological Asymmetries in Round Vowel Harmony: Support from Artificial Grammar Learning.","authors":"Sara Finley","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2012.660168","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01690965.2012.660168","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing evidence for the universal tendencies of patterns in the world's languages can be difficult, as it is impossible to sample all possible languages, and linguistic samples are subject to interpretation. However, experimental techniques such as artificial grammar learning paradigms make it possible to uncover the psychological reality of claimed universal tendencies. This paper addresses learning of phonological patterns (systematic tendencies in the sounds in language). Specifically, I explore the role of phonetic grounding in learning round harmony, a phonological process in which words must contain either all round vowels ([o, u]) or all unround vowels ([i, e]). The phonetic precursors to round harmony are such that mid vowels ([o, e]), which receive the greatest perceptual benefit from harmony, are most likely to trigger harmony. High vowels ([i, u]), however, are cross-linguistically less likely to trigger round harmony. Adult participants were exposed to a miniature language that contained a round harmony pattern in which the harmony source triggers were either high vowels ([i, u]) (poor harmony source triggers) or mid vowels ([o, e]) (ideal harmony source triggers). Only participants who were exposed to the ideal mid vowel harmony source triggers were successfully able to generalize the harmony pattern to novel instances, suggesting that perception and phonetic naturalness play a role in learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 10","pages":"1550-1562"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3524587/pdf/nihms-371387.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31144049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does phonology play a role when skilled readers read high-frequency words? Evidence from ERPs","authors":"R. L. Newman, D. Jared, Corinne A. Haigh","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.603932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.603932","url":null,"abstract":"We used event-related brain potentials to clarify the role of phonology in activating the meanings of high-frequency words during skilled silent reading. Target homophones (meet) in sentences such as The students arranged to meet in the library to study were replaced on some trials by either a high-frequency homophone mate (meat) or a spelling control word (mean). Differences between homophone errors and spelling controls were observed, both in the N400 component and in earlier time windows, suggesting that phonology continues to play a role in activating word meanings even for highly practiced words. A manipulation of the frequency of the correct target word provided evidence concerning the nature of the processing involved.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1361 - 1384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.603932","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59134641","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}
{"title":"Between anaphora and deixis … The resolution of the demonstrative noun phrase “that N”","authors":"M. Fossard, A. Garnham, H. Cowles","doi":"10.1080/01690965.2011.606668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.606668","url":null,"abstract":"Three experiments examined the hypothesis that the demonstrative noun phrase (NP) that N, as an anadeictic expression, preferentially refers to the less salient referent in a discourse representation when used anaphorically, whereas the anaphoric pronoun he or she preferentially refers to the highly-focused referent. The findings, from a sentence completion task and two reading time experiments that used gender to create ambiguous and unambiguous coreference, reveal that the demonstrative NP specifically orients processing toward a less salient referent when there is no gender cue discriminating between different possible referents. These findings show the importance of taking into account the discourse function of the anaphor itself and its influence on the process of searching for the referent.","PeriodicalId":87410,"journal":{"name":"Language and cognitive processes","volume":"27 1","pages":"1385 - 1404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01690965.2011.606668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59135205","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}