Three experiments investigated strategies readers use to process locally ambiguous unbounded dependency constructions. Discusses implications of the results for theories of parsing. (Author/VWL)

Investigates whether syntax signals foregrounding/backgrounding structure in English. Backgrounded the main clause using progressive or pluperfect aspect. A rating study showed coreference was allowed more frequently for pronouns in main clauses when those clauses contained progressive or pluperfect aspect. (Author/VWL)

Proposes a method for processing datasets that show whether or not each of several patients was impaired on each of several tests, and expressing conclusions about them. Advantages are that results from the patterns of impairment alone are shown, uninfluenced by theories, previous empirical work, knowledge of lesions, or ideas about what the tests…

This comment on an article addresses two issues: (1) Different from what the authors of the article suggest, there are no theories of production claiming the phonological word to be the upper ground of advance planning before the onset of articulation; (2) the picture naming study of word frequency effect on speech onset is inconclusive by lack of…

Responds to a critique on an article and argues against criticisms put forth in the response. Shows that the hypotheses put forth in research about the scope of phonological encoding are well motivated in the context of current theories of speech production. (Author/VWL)

Forty-eight young (mean age 28.9 years) and 44 older (mean age 67.2 years) males learned building layout and processed narratives about a character moving through the building. Both groups answered location room probes more quickly than other probes. Age differences in response time were greater for true probes about distant objects than for…

Discusses how listeners compensate for coarticulatory influences of one speech sound on another and examines whether lipread information penetrates this perceptual compensation mechanism. Results of three experiments indicate that biasing of the fricative by lipread information and compensation for coarticulation can be dissociated. (Author/VWL)

Describes lexical influences on selective adaptation using words with ambiguous phonemes as adapters. (Author/VWL)

Examined online processing of morphological cues to sentence interpretation in Russian and German, evaluating the relative impact of cue availability and reliability. Using picture choices, researchers contrasted case-marking and animacy. Language differences in online processing existed, though both languages provided the same repertoire of…

Examined how knowledge associated with verbs can be impaired by brain damage. A standardized battery of tests was administered to a group of brain damaged subjects. The goal was to investigate how patterns of associations and dissociations that emerged across tests could shed light on the functional architecture that underlies the meaning of verbs…

Proposes that the P600 component in event related potential research is not restricted to reanalysis processes, but reflects difficulty with syntactic integration processes in general. (Author/VWL)

Data are presented from crossmodal form priming experiments in German on regressive and progressive assimilation at word boundaries. Results show that some, but not all forms of lawful variation are tolerated by the lexical system. Consequences of these findings for psycholinguistic and linguistic models are discussed. (Author/VWL)

Recent research in psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that co-speech gestures are semantically integrated with speech during language comprehension and development. The present study explored whether gestures also play a role in language learning in adults. In Experiment 1, we exposed adults to a brief training session presenting novel…

Two experiments examined whether Deaf signers or hearing nonsigners exhibit categorical perception (CP) for hand configuration or for place of articulation in American Sign Language. Findings that signers and nonsigners performed similarly suggests that these categories in American Sign Language have a perceptual as well as a linguistic basis.…

In morphological processing in adult speech, irregular forms are subject to several types of errors, including overgeneralization and overtensing. A morphonaming task found that probability of these errors is affected by a phonological factor that derives from vowel phoneme frequencies in a complex fashion: whether the vowel in the past tense form…