I designed a presentation on a series of papers to give the class Tuesday. Next Tuesday is another presentation, but meanwhile, check this one out: [1] PSYC572 presentation (220.7KB PDF).

The thesis is, if psycholinguistically we interpret objects of subject-verb pairs more quickly if they fit in context than if not—then do we interpret adverbs in the same way? Hmm.

References:

McKoon, G., Ratcliff, R., & Ward, G. (1994). Testing theories of language processing: An empirical investigation of the on-line lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1219-1228.

Nicol, J. L., Fodor, J. D., & Swinney, D. (1994). Using cross-modal lexical decision tasks to investigate sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1229-1238.

Nicol, J. L., & Swinney, D. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 5-20.

Sharkey, A., & Sharkey, N. (1992). Weak contextual constraints in text and word priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 543-572.

I designed a presentation on a series of papers to give the class Tuesday. Next Tuesday is another presentation, but meanwhile, check this one out: [2] PSYC572 presentation (220.7KB PDF).

The thesis is, if psycholinguistically we interpret objects of subject-verb pairs more quickly if they fit in context than if not—then do we interpret adverbs in the same way? Hmm.

References:

McKoon, G., Ratcliff, R., & Ward, G. (1994). Testing theories of language processing: An empirical investigation of the on-line lexical decision task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1219-1228.

Nicol, J. L., Fodor, J. D., & Swinney, D. (1994). Using cross-modal lexical decision tasks to investigate sentence processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1229-1238.

Nicol, J. L., & Swinney, D. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 18, 5-20.

Sharkey, A., & Sharkey, N. (1992). Weak contextual constraints in text and word priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 543-572.