Language-specific prosodic acquisition: A comparison of phrase boundary perception by French- and German-learning infants
This study compares the development of prosodic processing in French- and German-learning infants. The emergence of language-specific perception of phrase boundaries was directly tested using the same stimuli across these two languages. French-learning (Experiment 1, 2) and German-learning 6- and 8-month-olds (Experiment 3) listened to the same French noun sequences with or without major prosodic boundaries ([Loulou et Manou][et Nina]; [Loulou et Manou et Nina], respectively). The boundaries were either naturally cued (Experiment 1), or cued exclusively by pitch and duration (Experiment 2, 3). French-learning 6- and 8-mont...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - February 20, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension?
We present a theoretical proposal of how case and number information may be used differentially during agreement licensing in comprehension. More generally, this work sheds light on the nature of the retrieval cues deployed when completing morphosyntactic dependencies. (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - February 14, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semantic transparency is not invisibility: A computational model of perceptually-grounded conceptual combination in word processing
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Fritz Günther, Marco Alessandro Petilli, Marco MarelliAbstractPrevious studies found that an automatic meaning-composition process affects the processing of morphologically complex words, and related this operation to conceptual combination. However, research on embodied cognition demonstrates that concepts are more than just lexical meanings, rather being also grounded in perceptual experience. Therefore, perception-based information should also be involved in mental operations on concepts, such as conceptual combination. Consequently...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - February 14, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A computational approach to the revelation effect
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Martin Brandt, André Aßfalg, Ann-Kathrin Zaiser, Daniel M. BernsteinAbstractInterrupting a sequence of episodic recognition decisions by a problem-solving task will change the hit and false alarm rate for the following item in a recognition test (Watkins & Peynircioglu, 1990). The mechanisms of this revelation effect have not yet been understood completely. We offer a new explanation based on the global matching model MINERVA 2 (Hintzman, 1984, 1986, 1988). The main mechanism in our approach is that the interrupting problem-solvi...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Explaining complementarity in false memory
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): C.J. Brainerd, K. Nakamura, Y.A. MurtazaAbstractComplementarity is a paradoxical phenomenon in which memory for incompatible reality states (e.g., old vs. new) violates basic logical constraints: Subjects remember certain groups of items as belonging to both of two incompatible states at reliable levels. The theoretical principle that predicts this phenomenon, non-compensatory gist memory, also predicts a more stringent form in which individual items are successively remembered as belonging to each of two incompatible states. In the pre...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - February 10, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Best practice guidance for linear mixed-effects models in psychological science
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Lotte Meteyard, Robert A.I. DaviesAbstractThe use of Linear Mixed-effects Models (LMMs) is set to dominate statistical analyses in psychological science and may become the default approach to analyzing quantitative data. The rapid growth in adoption of LMMs has been matched by a proliferation of differences in practice. Unless this diversity is recognized, and checked, the field shall reap enormous difficulties in the future when attempts are made to consolidate or synthesize research findings. Here we examine this diversity using two m...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 30, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Visual working memory capacity is limited by two systems that change across lifespan
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Anka Slana Ozimič, Grega RepovšAbstractTo better understand the sources of visual working memory limitations we explore the possibility that its capacity is limited by two systems: a representational system that enables formation of independent representations of visual objects, and an active maintenance system that enables sustained activation of the established representations in the absence of external stimuli. A total of 392 participants took part in four experiments in which they were asked to maintain orientation of items presen...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 25, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cues to stress in English spelling
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Rebecca Treiman, Nicole Rosales, Lauren Cusner, Brett KesslerAbstractHow do skilled readers of English decide which syllable of a word to stress? In four behavioral studies, we examined this issue using disyllabic nonwords that varied in number of initial and final consonants. The tasks included oral reading of sentences that contained the nonwords, pronunciation of isolated nonwords, and metalinguistic judgments about stress. Contrary to the influential view within linguistics that onsets are irrelevant to stress assignment, the rate o...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 22, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 19, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Long-lasting gradient activation of referents during spoken language processing
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): J. Benjamin Falandays, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Joseph C. ToscanoAbstractDuring speech processing, listeners must map a fundamentally continuous acoustic signal onto discrete symbols, such as words. A current debate concerns the time-course over which sub-phonemic (i.e., gradient) acoustic information continues to influence symbolic (i.e., linguistic) interpretation, which can provide evidence regarding the level of representation at which gradient information is maintained. In a visual-world paradigm experiment, participants indicated whet...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 9, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers
Publication date: June 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 112Author(s): Caroline Floccia, Claire Delle Luche, Irina Lepadatu, Janette Chow, Paul Ratnage, Kim PlunkettAbstractIn adult bilinguals, a word in one language will activate a related word in the other language, with language dominance modulating the direction of these effects. To determine whether the early bilingual lexicon possesses similar properties to its adult counterpart, two experiments compared translation equivalent priming and cross-linguistic semantic priming in 27-month-old bilingual toddlers learning English and one other language. Pri...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 9, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Jana Reifegerste, Rebecca Jarvis, Claudia FelserAbstractWhile much attention has been devoted to the cognition of aging multilingual individuals, little is known about how age affects their grammatical processing. We assessed subject-verb number-agreement processing in sixty native (L1) and sixty non-native (L2) speakers of German (age: 18–84) using a binary-choice sentence-completion task, along with various individual-differences tests. Our results revealed differential effects of age on L1 and L2 speakers' accuracy and reaction ti...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - January 7, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Are graphemic effects real in skilled visual word recognition?
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Fabienne ChetailAbstractIn the last decades, repeated evidence for graphemic effects has been reported in skilled readers. For example, a letter is more easily detected in a word when it corresponds to a simple grapheme (e.g., A in PLACE) than when it is embedded in a complex one (e.g., A in BEACH). Such effects have been taken as a demonstration that graphemes are processed as perceptual units by the reading system. However, this conclusion has been recently challenged by studies using different experimental designs. In the present st...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - December 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Adaptive use of semantic representations and phonological representations in verbal memory maintenance
This study investigated the WLE under articulatory suppression and when following the semantic instruction in serial recall of words of high and low imageability. In addition, the study investigated whether the WLE is affected by individual differences in capacity for maintaining semantic representations that are measured by the synonym recognition task. The results demonstrated that the WLE disappeared when maintaining highly imageable words but was still observed when maintaining words of low imageability under articulatory suppression. Moreover, the semantic instruction eliminated the WLE only in individuals who could p...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - December 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Maze Made Easy: Better and easier measurement of incremental processing difficulty
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Veronica Boyce, Richard Futrell, Roger P. LevyAbstractBehavioral measures of incremental language comprehension difficulty form a crucial part of the empirical basis of psycholinguistics. The two most common methods for obtaining these measures have significant limitations: eye tracking studies are resource-intensive, and self-paced reading can yield noisy data with poor localization. These limitations are even more severe for web-based crowdsourcing studies, where eye tracking is infeasible and self-paced reading is vulnerable to inat...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - December 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
