[HTML][HTML] Presuppositions of determiners are immediately used to disambiguate utterance meaning: A mouse-tracking study on the German language

C Schneider, N Bade, M Franke, M Janczyk - Psychological Research, 2021 - Springer
The present study investigated how listeners understand and process the definite and the
indefinite determiner. While the definite determiner clearly conveys a uniqueness …

Bilinguals on the garden-path: Individual differences in syntactic ambiguity resolution

T Brothers, LJ Hoversten, MJ Traxler - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Syntactic parsing plays a central role in the interpretation of sentences, but it is unclear to
what extent non-native speakers can deploy native-like grammatical knowledge during …

Word vs. World Knowledge: A developmental shift from bottom-up lexical cues to top-down plausibility

A Yacovone, CL Shafto, A Worek, J Snedeker - Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Both 5-year-old children and adults infer the structure of a sentence as they are hearing it.
Prior work, however, has found that children do not always make use of the same …

Investigating the role of distribution in syntactic comprehension

VJ Langlois - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Comprehenders encounter a variety of syntactic structures through reading or spoken
conversation. In some cases, sentences can be ambiguous and have more than one …

MVPA does not reveal neural representations of hierarchical linguistic structure in MEG

S Arana, JM Schoffelen, T Mitchell, P Hagoort - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
During comprehension, the meaning extracted from serial language input can be described
by hierarchical phrase structure. Whether our brains explicitly encode hierarchical structure …

The Use of Sense-Contingent Subcategorization Bias Information By L1 and L2 English Speakers in the Resolution of Temporary Ambiguity

B Canıdar - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Eylemlerin anlamsal özellikleri, altulam seçimlerini etkileyen en temel unsurlardandır.
İngilizce ana dili ve yabancı dil konuşurlarının anlama dayalı altulam seçimlerini incelemek …