Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 1992"

TL;DR: This article found that syntactic ambiguities are sensitive to syntactic anomaly, including anomaly engendered by disambiguating material following erroneous analysis of a syntactically ambiguous string (the "garden path" effect).

TL;DR: In this article, the same authors found that readers form the same spatial mental models capturing the spatial relations between landmarks from both survey and route descriptions, and from maps, and were as fast and accurate to inference questions from the read perspective as from the new perspective, suggesting that inference questions are verified against a representation of the situation described by text.

TL;DR: This article found that when the texts were accompanied by appropriate pictures, subjects tended to mentally represent the procedure more strongly than when presented alone or with pictures illustrating the order in which the steps were described in the text, and that these results disconfirm motivational, repetition and some dual code explanations of the facilitative effects of pictures.

TL;DR: The authors found that listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables but delete them before weak syllables, and that boundaries inserted before strong words produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted between strong and weak words produce grammatical words.

TL;DR: The authors showed that agreement errors were more frequent after phrases than after clauses that separated the verb from its head noun, reversing the direction of a related effect in language comprehension, and that longer phrases led to more errors; longer clauses did not.

TL;DR: This paper showed that participants in conversation develop beliefs about shared information that others do not, and that conversation provides preferred evidence for coordinating beliefs about sharing information, which is the same as a completely naive partner.

TL;DR: In this paper, a feed-forward network model based on Baddeley's concept of an "articulatory loop" is presented, where items are modeled at the level of phonemes and phonemic output is fed back to the next phonemic input.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of delays within overt verbal responding in causing effects of word length on immediate recall and found that recall of each word was influenced by the total pronunciation time for all items to be recalled prior to that word, although there was an additional advantage for the last item output.

TL;DR: This article explored readers' mental models of described scenes and found that reaction times to identify objects were fastest for the head/feet (above/below) axis, then the front/back (front/behind) axis and then the left/right axis, conforming to the spatial framework analysis which reflects people's conceptions of space based on typical interactions in space.

TL;DR: The authors showed that referential context eliminates all the first pass reading time differences that are indicative of a garden path to the relative continuation in the null context, however, the context does not eliminate the increased proportion of regressions from that disambiguating continuation.

TL;DR: This paper examined speech timing in the memory response in 4-year-olds and found that speaking rates depended on list length relative to a subject's span, but that the speaking rates for span-length lists were the same for subjects of any span.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of syllabic structure and stress assignment in the perceptual segmentation of Catalan and Spanish words is studied, and both task demands and language specific parameters play a role in the presence or absence of syllablification effects in segment detection.

TL;DR: This article examined the difference between idioms and their literal paraphrases and found that idioms have more complex meanings that are motivated by conceptual metaphors linking idiom phrases with their figurative interpretations.

TL;DR: This article proposed that the causal bridging inference that links the sentences of Mary poured the water on the bonfire must be validated against general knowledge, and the missing premise, “Water extinguishes fire,” is computed, and validated against world knowledge.

TL;DR: This article conducted four experiments testing whether function is the primary determinat of membership in artifact categories and found that some objects that do not possess the function associated with a category are excluded from category membership, and some objects are still considered to belong to the category.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the surface syntax of the to-be-recalled sentence is not directly represented in memory, but is regenerated using normal mechanisms of sentence production using activated lexical entries.

TL;DR: This article found that young children and adults share a shape bias in learning novel object count nouns: they generalize the label to objects sharing the same shape as a standard but differing greatly in size or texture.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of bigram frequencies on the connectionist theory of reading and found that the reliable effects of syllabic and morphological structure that are observed cannot be explained by the presence or absence of a bigram trough.

TL;DR: This article reported five experiments on backwards causal inferences, which serve to justify the causal relation expressed by the sentence, but they are not made during reading, as is indicated by reading and verification times in Experiments 1 and 2, and judgments in Experiment 3.

TL;DR: The authors evaluate contradictory structural explanations for concreteness effects and conclude that these attributes are uncorrelated and have independent effects on the recall ability of concrete and abstract words, and that concrete words have smaller associative sets than abstract words making them easier to recall.

TL;DR: This paper used eye movement data to test two models of lexical ambiguity resolution: the integration model and reordered access model, where the disambiguating material has no effect on the initial access phase of the meaning assignment process.

TL;DR: This paper found that patients with dysarthria, a lower-level speech output impairment, had more difficulty with written rhyme than homophone judgments, and that patients' spans were significantly reduced compared to controls.

TL;DR: The authors showed that context override of syntactic parsing preferences can override the preference to attach prepositional phrases high to the verb in sentences with postnominal preposition phrases (PPs).

TL;DR: In this paper, three lexical decision experiments were carried out to investigate the nature of morphological decomposition in the lexical system and the effect of stem homograph priming on a simple inflected word.

TL;DR: The authors showed that associative priming for prime target pairs embedded in text rather than scrambled sentences is a difficult finding to align with any current model of word recognition, which runs counter to predictions from Kintsch's (1988, Psychological Review, 95, 163, 182) construction-integration model and favor the lexical distance model.

TL;DR: This article investigated the on-line status of goal-related inferences and found that superordinate goal inferences have a higher likelihood of being generated online during comprehension than do subordinate inferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between linguistic prosody and musical meter in song was analyzed and it was found that the Compound Word and Nuclear Stress rules of English coincided with musical rules of metrical accent.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that for lexical decision, a facilitatory masked repetition priming effect occurred for both intentionally and incidentally studied words and nonwords and for nonstudied words, but not for non-studied nonwords.

TL;DR: This paper found that the proportion of a given pronunciation was highly correlated with the subjective familiarity of that pronunciation, and argued that the counterintuitive data in which the more frequent pronunciation has a longer latency than the less frequent pronunciation requires two different constraints or processes that have different time courses.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between word frequency and lexical decision performance as stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) was varied between the presentation of a letter string and a subsequent pattern mask.