Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2003"

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that forgetting is not a passive side effect of storing new memories, but results from inhibitory control mechanisms recruited to override prepotent responses, and the relation between this executive control theory of forgetting and classical accounts of interference is discussed.

TL;DR: The authors explored the basis by which thematic dependencies can be evaluated in advance of linguistic input that unambiguously signals those dependencies, and found that verb-based information is not limited to anticipating the immediately following (grammatical) object, but can also anticipate later occurring objects.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the informational coordination between speech and gesture across different languages and concluded that gestures are generated from spatio-motoric processes that interact on-line with the speech production process through the interaction, spatiomotoric information to be expressed is packaged into chunks that are verbalizable within a processing unit for speech formulation.

TL;DR: This paper examined the nature of the memory system that underlies sentence comprehension and found that syntactic and semantic information provided direct access to memory representations without the need to search through extraneous representations.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the priming of noun-phrase structure in dialogue and found that syntactically similar noun phrases are more likely to elicit a relative clause than simple noun phrases, and that this effect was enhanced when the head noun (square) was repeated.

TL;DR: In this article, a referential communication task was used to determine the conditions under which speakers produce and listeners use prosodic cues to distinguish alternative meanings of a syntactically ambiguous phrase.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of inner speech in task switching was examined and it was found that inner speech serves as an internal self-cuing device by retrieving and activating a phonological representation of the upcoming task.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of binding theory in online sentence processing and found that the binding theory operates at the very earliest stages of processing; early eye-movement measures showed evidence of processing difficulty when the gender of the reflexive anaphor mismatched the stereotypical gender of a grammatical antecedent.

TL;DR: This article found that the representations in memory from which lexical entrainment emerges do encode a partner-specific cue, leading addressees to expect that a speaker should continue to use an entrained-upon expression unless a contrast in meaning is implicated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how strategy use influences working memory span performance and the correlation between WM span scores and higher cognitive function, using the operation span measure and the Nelson-Denny assessment of reading ability.

TL;DR: This paper showed that a structural factor specific to the operation of the parser, retrieval interference, affects attachment uniformly across ambiguous and unambiguous sentences and serves to create a limit on successful repair.

TL;DR: The authors found that infants as young as 6 months old are sensitive to prosodic markers of syntactic units smaller than the clause, and that they use this sensitivity to recognize phrasal units, both noun and verb phrases, in fluent speech.

TL;DR: This paper showed that context words induce semantic interference whereas context pictures induce semantic facilitation in a word-to-word translation task, and proposed that conceptually-driven lexical access is confined to the selected target concept.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how people learn and integrate information from fictional sources with their general world knowledge and found that repeated reading of the stories increased the effect after a delay of one week, effects of story exposure were strongest for items that also had been tested in the first session.

TL;DR: The authors investigated phonological and orthographic neighborhood effects in auditory word recognition in French and found that phonological neighborhood produced the standard inhibitory effect (words with many neighbors produced longer latencies and more errors than words with few neighbors).

TL;DR: The authors explored whether the length of a complex word modifies the role of morphological structure in lexical processing: does morphology play a similar role in short complex words that typically elicit one eye fixation (e.g., eyelid) as it does in long complex words with typically elicit two or more eye fixations, e.g. watercourse?

TL;DR: The findings imply rapid access to articulatory speech information in the choice task, and are interpreted as evidence that listeners rapidly extract information about speakers' articulatory gestures.

TL;DR: This paper measured whether the mention of an optional that in a sentence-complement structure (e.g., the mechanic mentioned (that) the car could use a tune-up) can be primed by the prior production of a sentence that included a lexically or syntactically similar that, using a recall-based sentence-production task.

TL;DR: This article examined the processing of sentences containing reduced relative constructions and found that sentences with animate subjects were hard to interpret, and relatively late measures of processing indicated that an animate subject made ambiguity especially hard to overcome.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that speech onset latencies should be longer for long than for short words, and that the length effect was not due to a difference in the ease of object recognition.

TL;DR: This article examined the effect of presenting study items in unusual looking fonts and found that false recognition levels were lowest when there was a unique association between each font and a single study item and highest when all items from a theme were presented in the same font.

TL;DR: This paper examined cross-language masked priming with Korean-English unbalanced bilinguals and found that priming was affected both by prime-target relationship and by task type; this outcome was discussed in terms of the regulation of lexical information by a task-decision system.

TL;DR: This paper found that older adults were substantially less accurate than young adults in free report cued recall, and older adults showed less correspondence between their confidence judgments and the accuracy of their responses.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that nonfluent aphasic patients were impaired at judging regular stem and past-tense verbs like man/manned to be different, but equally poor at phonologically matched non-morphological discriminations like men/mend.

TL;DR: The authors showed that an effective interface between what has been seen and what is to be said can be constructed within 300 ms. This interface underpins a preverbal plan or message that appears to guide a comparatively slow, strongly incremental formulation of phrases.

TL;DR: In this article, the benefits of directed forgetting are explained by the differences in recall arising from individual strategy choices used to encode List 2, and the benefits are best explained by a more frequent use of deeper encoding of the second list by the forget group participants.

TL;DR: This article found that orthographic codes are mandatorily activated in speech production by literate speakers, suggesting that the incongruent spelling disrupted the form-preparation effect.

TL;DR: This paper investigated grammatical feature selection during noun phrase production in German and Dutch, and found that the gender congruency effect is really a determiner congruence effect and that grammatical features are an automatic consequence of lexical node selection.

TL;DR: This paper found that participants made visual lexical decisions to vowel- or consonant-initial targets (e.g., oignon, rognon ) following both versions of spoken sentences like C’est le dernier oignón / rognón, but was weaker when they mismatched the intended segmentation.

TL;DR: This article used corpus analyses to identify verbs that occur with both frames, and found that their subcategorization probabilities differ by sense, and that contexts can promote a specific sense of a verb, which subsequently influenced sub-categoryization probability.