Interference patterns in subject-verb agreement and reflexives revisited: A large-sample study
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Lena A. Jäger, Daniela Mertzen, Julie A. Van Dyke, Shravan VasishthAbstractCue-based retrieval theories in sentence processing predict two classes of interference effect: (i) Inhibitory interference is predicted when multiple items match a retrieval cue: cue-overloading leads to an overall slowdown in reading time; and (ii) Facilitatory interference arises when a retrieval target as well as a distractor only partially match the retrieval cues; this partial matching leads to an overall speedup in retrieval time. Inhibitory interference...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - December 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Scalar bounds and expected values of comparatively modified numerals
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Christoph Hesse, Anton BenzAbstractSpeakers routinely employ world knowledge to draw scalar implicatures in numerals. For instance, in the context of ‘an exceptionally hot summer’, speakers will use their knowledge of average summer temperatures and record temperatures to construct a range of potential values. However, it is not clear how they do so when they do not have strong expectations or context is less informative. 1270 adult American English native speakers were shown short dialogues and stories containing numerals modified...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - December 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Global semantic similarity effects in recognition memory: Insights from BEAGLE representations and the diffusion decision model
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Adam F. Osth, Kevin D. Shabahang, Douglas J.K. Mewhort, Andrew HeathcoteAbstractRecognition memory models posit that false alarm rates increase as the global similarity between the probe cue and the contents of memory is increased. Global similarity predictions have been commonly tested using category length designs where it has been found that false alarm rates increase as the number of studied items from a common category is increased. In this work, we explored global similarity predictions within unstructured lists of words using re...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Repairing speech errors: Competition as a source of repairs
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Sieb G. Nooteboom, Hugo QuenéAbstractThis paper focuses on the source of self-repairs of segmental speech errors during self-monitoring. A potential source of repairs are candidate forms competing with the form under production. In the time interval between self-monitoring internal and overt speech, activation of competitors probably decreases. From this theory of repairing we derived four main predictions specific for classical SLIP experiments: (1) Error-to-cutoff times are shorter after single elicited errors than after other error...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Psycholinguists should resist the allure of linguistic units as perceptual units
Publication date: April 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 111Author(s): Arthur G. SamuelAbstractThe current study has empirical, methodological, and theoretical components. It draws heavily on two recent papers: Bowers et al. (2016) (JML, 87, 71–83) used results from selective adaptation experiments to argue that phonemes play a critical role in speech perception. Mitterer et al. (2018) (JML, 98, 77–92) responded with their own adaptation experiments to advocate instead for allophones. These studies are part of a renewed use of the selective adaptation paradigm. Empirically, the current study reports r...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - November 16, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Accounting for the build-up of proactive interference across lists in a list length paradigm reveals a dominance of item-noise in recognition memory
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Julian Fox, Simon Dennis, Adam F. OsthAbstractThere has been a longstanding debate concerning whether interference in recognition memory is attributable to other items on the study list (i.e., item-noise) or to prior memories (i.e., context-noise and background-noise). Recently, Osth and Dennis (2015) devised a global matching model that could estimate the magnitude of each interference contribution and they found that context-noise and background-noise were dominant in recognition. In the present investigation, data from a list len...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 26, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Epistemic trespassing and disagreement
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Rachel Bristol, Federico RossanoAbstractCommunication in face-to-face human interaction entails complying with social and moral norms about knowledge possession and transfer, and violations of these norms are sanctionable offenses. Underestimating an addressee’s knowledge can be tantamount to an insult, especially in domains over which they have superior epistemic authority. This paper examines cases where parties are in explicit disagreement about both the content of an utterance and relative authority over the knowledge in that ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The role of strategy use in working memory training outcomes
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Daniel Fellman, Jussi Jylkkä, Otto Waris, Anna Soveri, Liisa Ritakallio, Sarah Haga, Juha Salmi, Thomas J. Nyman, Matti LaineAbstractCognitive mechanisms underlying the limited transfer effects of working memory (WM) training remain poorly understood. We tested in detail the Strategy Mediation hypothesis, according to which WM training generates task-specific strategies that facilitate performance on the trained task and its untrained variants. This large-scale pre-registered randomized controlled trial (n = 258) used a 4-week ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The world is not enough to explain lengthening of phonological competitors
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Duane G. WatsonAbstractSpeakers tend to lengthen the durations of words when a phonologically overlapping word has recently been produced. Although there are multiple accounts of why lengthening occurs, all of these accounts generally assume that competition at some point in the production-comprehension process leads to lengthening. We investigated the contexts that lead to competition and consequent lengthening of target word duration. In three experiments, we manipulated the contexts in whi...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 16, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models: A tutorial
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Daniel J. Schad, Shravan Vasishth, Sven Hohenstein, Reinhold KlieglAbstractFactorial experiments in research on memory, language, and in other areas are often analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). However, for effects with more than one numerator degrees of freedom, e.g., for experimental factors with more than two levels, the ANOVA omnibus F-test is not informative about the source of a main effect or interaction. Because researchers typically have specific hypotheses about which condition means differ from each other, a pri...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Structural alignment in dialogue and monologue (and what attention may have to do with it)
Publication date: February 2020Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 110Author(s): Iva Ivanova, William S. Horton, Benjamin Swets, Daniel Kleinman, Victor S. FerreiraAbstractIn the Interactive Alignment Theory, alignment is promoted by dialogic features on a dialogue-monologue continuum. More alignment in prototypical dialogue (a chat among friends) than in prototypical monologue (a lecture) seems plausible, but the role of other dialogic features for alignment is less clear. The current study tests the joint influence of two such features: communicative intent and a live interlocutor. Four structural priming expe...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - October 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Opacity, transparency, and morphological priming: A study of prefixed verbs in Dutch
This study examines the question of morphological relatedness using intra-modal auditory priming by Dutch prefixed verbs. The key conditions involve semantically transparent prefixed primes (e.g., aanbieden ‘offer’, with the stem bieden, also ‘offer’) and opaque primes (e.g., verbieden ‘forbid’). Results show robust facilitation for both transparent and opaque pairs; phonological (Experiment 1) and semantic (Experiment 2) controls rule out the possibility that these other types of relatedness are responsible for the observed priming effects. The finding of facilitation with opaque primes suggests that morpholog...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 109Author(s): (Source: Journal of Memory and Language)
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cumulative effects of syntactic experience in a between- and a within-language context: Evidence for implicit learning
Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 109Author(s): Heeju Hwang, Jeong-Ah ShinAbstractImplicit learning models suggest that speakers adapt syntactic knowledge in response to prior syntactic experience and such adaptation is sensitive to surface structures (word order) (e.g., Chang et al., 2006, Reitter et al., 2011). To determine the scope of syntactic processing to which an implicit learning mechanism is applicable and its sensitivity to surface structures, we investigated cumulative priming and inverse frequency effects across different constructions in a between- language context ...
Source: Journal of Memory and Language - September 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
