Showing papers in "Journal of Memory and Language in 2016"

TL;DR: The authors performed an exhaustive meta-analysis of 73 peer-reviewed journal articles on syntactic priming from the seminal Bock (1986) paper through 2013 and found a robust effect with an average weighted odds ratio of 1.67 when there was no lexical overlap and 3.26 when there is.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed some of the most significant contributions of Rayner and his colleagues in the field of reading research, including the development of paradigms for answering questions about the perceptual span and its relationship to attention, reading experience, and linguistic variables.

TL;DR: This paper used ERPs to investigate the pre-activation of form and meaning in language comprehension and found that readers can pre-activate meaning and form information for highly predictable words, but form preactivation is more limited than meaning preactivation.

TL;DR: A study of speech comprehension using the visual world paradigm demonstrates that bilingual listeners can indeed exploit these low-level phonetic cues to anticipate that a codeswitch is coming and to suppress activation of the non-target language.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether and how prosody (the vocal tone) contributes to the identification of "unspoken" intentions and found that speakers do not always code their intentions literally, raising the question of which mechanisms enable interlocutors to exchange communicative intents.

TL;DR: This article examined how reactive control and proactive control during bilingual language production was modulated by three factors reflected by different time-courses of stimulus presentation and found that longer preparation time helps overcome reactive inhibition.

TL;DR: A novel web-based task-oriented paradigm for speech recording, in which participants produce instructions towards a (simulated) partner with naturalistic response times, suggests that speakers adapt their pronunciations based on the perceived communicative success of their previous productions in the current environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of bilingualism on elderly lifelong bilinguals whose cognitive abilities are in decline were investigated, and no modulation in any of the indices due to L2 proficiency was found.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether syntactic representations for different languages are shared or separate, and whether such representations in the first language are stored in a fundamentally different way from those in later acquired languages.

TL;DR: This article investigated structural priming in spontaneous bilingual dialogue, focusing on a hallmark of bilingual language use: codeswitching, and they found that key discoveries from the structural prim-ing literature also apply to bilinguals' code-witching behavior, in terms of both the tendency to codeswitch and the grammatical frame of codeswitched utterances.

TL;DR: This article showed that children's syntactic production is immediately affected by individual experiences of structures and verb-structure pairings within a dialogue, but that these effects have different timecourses.

TL;DR: Code-switching is employed to test the hypothesis that bilinguals are sensitive to the combinatorial distributional patterns derived from production and that they use this information to guide processing during the comprehension of code-switched sentences.

TL;DR: This article examined the nature of the relationship between the two modalities, particularly how producing speech influences speech perception and found that learning perceptual representations can be disrupted by producing tokens during training, and investigated whether this disruption can be alleviated by prior experience with the speech sounds, or is a more general conflict between the production system and the system that develops new perceptual representations.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the Now-Or-Never bottleneck implies that language processing is incremental and that language learning occurs on-line, which is difficult to reconcile with the abstract knowledge viewpoint, and crucially suggest that language comprehension and production are facets of a unitary skill.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate robust effects of grammatical encoding on language selection, and imply that executive control influences bilingual language production only after sentence planning and lexical selection.

TL;DR: Evidence is found for structural priming in two different grammatical constructions and across human-human and human-computer interaction, and for reciprocal priming occurring in human- human interaction, which drove some pairs of participants to converge on maximally regular, highly predictable linguistic systems.

TL;DR: This article explored the extent to which adults reshape the lexical-semantic representations of such words on the basis of experience, to increase the availability of more recently accessed meanings, and found that individuals' overall meaning preferences reflect experience across a wide range of timescales from minutes to years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how acoustic cue value and statistical variance affect perceptual uncertainty during Cantonese consonant (Experiment 1) and tone perception, and found that low variance generally creates less uncertainty but can lead to greater uncertainty in the face of unexpected speech tokens.

TL;DR: This paper found that 3-to 6-year-old Turkish learners produce evidential morphemes accurately but have difficulty with evidential comprehension, and comprehension failures persist across multiple tasks.

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether structural priming of production latencies is sensitive to the same factors known to influence persistence of structural choices: structure preference, cumulativity and verb repetition, and found structural persistence for passives to be influenced by immediate primes and long lasting cumulusativity (all preceding primes).

TL;DR: This article investigated the generalizability of the claim that syntactic priming persists, while only the lexical boost to syntactically priming decays, and found that explicit memory of the prime sentence enhances syntactical priming, leading to stronger priming in immediate conditions than when sentences intervene between the prime and the target sentence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of two mechanisms of auditory distraction in verbal serial short-term memory (SSTM) performance: interference with the serial rehearsal processes used to support shortterm recall and general attentional diversion and found that under-developed rehearsal skill in this population may increase their distractibility.

TL;DR: Whether and how listeners' expectations about quantifier use adapts with exposure to talkers who use quantifiers in different ways is examined, demonstrating that listeners can adapt to talker-specific biases in both how often and with what intended meaning many and some are used.

TL;DR: It is suggested that readers adapt to unfamiliar syntactic structures, that, in doing so, they become more like existing users of those structures, and that they can generalize this other structures that they may also be more likely to encounter.

TL;DR: The tendency for speech errors to follow the production constraint was diluted when the opposite pattern was present on perception trials, thus demonstrating transfer of learning from perception to production.

TL;DR: The authors found that quantifier, number, and ad hoc enrichments exhibit robust priming within their categories and between each other, while Plural enrichments demonstrate within-category and between-category priming.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that agrammatic speakers are sensitive toStructural priming across levels of representation and that such effects are lasting, suggesting that structural priming may be beneficial for the treatment of sentence production deficits in agrammatism.

TL;DR: Listeners consistently reported hearing more boundaries at syntactic licensed locations than at syntactically unlicensed locations, even when the acoustic evidence for an intonational boundary was controlled, suggesting that the processing of an int onational boundary is a product of both acoustic cues and listener expectations.

TL;DR: A likelihood-based model-comparison technique is introduced, which embeds a model of semantic structure within the context maintenance and retrieval (CMR) model of human memory search, and finds that models using WAS have the greatest predictive power.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of studies aimed at illuminating what underlies this effect, performing the first quantitative test of a 200 year old theory of humor proposed by Schopenhauer (1818).