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Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Barkhuysen, Pashiera N. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In order to study the role of working memory in sentence formulation, we elicited errors of subject-verb agreement in spoken sentence completion, while speakers did or did not maintain an extrinsic memory load (a word list). We compared participants with low and high speaking spans (a measure of verbal working memory for sentence production). As…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Grammar
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Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Roelstraete, Bjorn; Costa, Albert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Lexical bias is the tendency for phonological errors to form existing words at a rate above chance. This effect has been observed in experiments and corpus analyses in Germanic languages, but S. del Viso, J. M. Igoa, and J. E. Garcia-Albea (1991) found no effect in a Spanish corpus study. Because lexical bias plays an important role in the debate…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Lexicology, Bias, Spanish