Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, Spanish learners of Catalan and Korean learners of Spanish were asked to perform a switching task between their first and dominant languages (L1, Spanish or Korean) and their second language (L2, Catalan or Spanish).

TL;DR: In this paper, speakers monitor their own speech and, when they discover problems, make repairs in the proposal examined here, speakers also monitor addressees for understanding and alter their utterances in progress.

TL;DR: An expanded version of the Battig and Montague (1969) category norms are reported, based on responses from three different sites varying in geographical locations within the United States, to meet the need for updated norms.

TL;DR: This article examined lexical competition in non-native spoken word recognition with eye-tracking experiments and found that non-natives are more likely to confuse with vowels in a target picture name ( pencil, given target panda) than on less confusable distractors ( beetle, given target bottle ).

TL;DR: New on-line resources that the project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web are described at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/.

TL;DR: The authors showed that participants are less accurate and take significantly longer to answer correctly when instructions call for a Some but not all interpretation rather than a Some and possibly all interpretation, and that the rate of scalar inferences increased as permitted response time did.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of transposed-letter similarity effects on the lexical representation of non-adjacent transpositions of consonants versus vowels in a lexical decision task.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of self-paced reading time experiments was performed to assess how characteristics of noun phrases (NPs) contribute to the difference in processing difficulty between object-and subject-extracted relative clauses.

TL;DR: This paper found that infants turn their heads for isolated bisyllabic words when presented with sentences that either contained the familiarized words or contained both their syllables separated by a phonological phrase boundary.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of administration method on the criterion validity of a commonly used working memory span test, the reading span task, and examine the relationship between processing and storage in this task was examined.

TL;DR: This article showed that masked L2-L1 priming does not occur in lexical decision because an insufficient proportion of the L1 lexical semantic representation is activated by the L2 prime.

TL;DR: This paper found that children were more likely to use a particular syntactic form if it had been used by the experimenter, and that children represent syntactic forms independently of particular lexical items.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of aging on response time were examined in a recognition memory experiment with young, college age subjects and older, 60-75 year old subjects, and the results showed that the older subjects were slower than the young subjects but almost as accurate.

TL;DR: The authors used a dual-task paradigm to compare the demands gesturing makes on visuospatial and verbal working memories and found that participants in both groups remembered significantly more items when they gestured than when they did not gesture.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the processing of long-distance filler-gap dependencies in Japanese, a strongly head-final language, and found that Japanese readers associate a fronted wh-phrase with the most deeply embedded clause of a multi-clause sentence.

TL;DR: The authors showed that partial parses which are syntactically compatible with only a proper subpart of the input are sometimes constructed, at least temporarily, by using a bottom-up dynamical model.

TL;DR: The authors found that bilinguals' languages may influence cognitive styles, so that when speaking a language associated with a more individualistic culture, bilinguals produce more personal narratives, whereas when speaking in a more collectivist one, they produce more collective narratives regardless of language of encoding or main agent in the narrative.

TL;DR: This article explored the interaction between prosodic and segmental aspects of infant representations for speech using the head-turn paradigm, with untrained everyday familiar words and phrases as stimuli, and found that changing the initial consonant of English words did not block word recognition while change to the second consonant did not.

TL;DR: This article found that infants prefer to listen to happy speech, and their early lexical representations appear to be dominated by covarying properties of experienced exemplars, whether or not these are ultimately relevant for lexical distinctions.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of age of acquisition (AoA) in word reading and other tasks, and attempts to develop a number of issues raised by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) were discussed.

TL;DR: This article used a lexical decision priming paradigm in which the critical trials consist of first language (i.e., L1) Spanish targets preceded by English (L2) primes.

TL;DR: This paper reported a second reversal: context words that induce semantic interference at SOA=+200 ms, induce semantic facilitation at SoA=−400 ms. The CSM simulated this finding when the additional assumption was made that lexical representations decay faster than conceptual representations.

TL;DR: This article identified a further subcomponent of syntactic reanalysis, namely the revision of case marking, and showed that lexeme-specific support for the dative-initial reading, however, does not lead to a faster computation of the target structure, but rather increases the likelihood that the correct interpretation will be computed.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of concurrent visual choice reaction time task on the recall of auditorily presented stories, sentences, and lists of unrelated words, in order to investigate the relative importance of automatic and controlled processing for these materials.

TL;DR: The authors found that the amount of processing activities, not the sheer passage of time, may be the critical factor underlying the sentence order effect, thereby challenging purely time-based explanations of forgetting during reading span performance.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of the syllable during the process of word formation and concluded that syllables emerge at the interface between phonological and phonetic encoding, in terms of the WEAVER++ model of lexical access.

TL;DR: The authors found that subjects expected more detailed recollections for pictures, thereby facilitating a diagnostic monitoring process (distinctiveness heuristic) and that detailed recollective expectations influence monitoring processes.

TL;DR: This paper explored the effect of sublexical phonological knowledge on the nonword phonotactic frequency effect in verbal short-term memory (STM) by using an incidental phonological learning paradigm.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore and test the error latency predictions of four alternative mechanisms for the representation of serial order, and show that these data rule out three of the four representational mechanisms.

TL;DR: The authors developed and applied a technique, based on the logic of process dissociation, for obtaining numerical estimates of item and order information, and showed that their derived estimates conform generally to expected trends, although surprising results emerged in some instances.