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The Structural Characteristics and On-line Comprehension of Experiencer-Verb Sentences.

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Cupples, Linda – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002

Examined how skilled adult readers assign meaning to sentences. Of particular interest were sentences containing "experiencer" verbs, which describe states or emotions rather than actions. Subjects were university students in Australia. Test items were semantically implausible sentences. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Error Analysis (Language)

The Gender Congruity Effect: Evidence from Spanish and Catalan.

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Costa, Alberto; Senastian-Galles, Nuria; Miozzo, Michele; Caramazza, Alfonso – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999

In five picture-word interference experiments, this article explores the gender-congruity effect in Dutch in two languages, Spanish and Catalan. Performance was not affected by the relationship between the gender of the picture and the gender of the word. Results show that the gender-congruity effect is not a universal effect, but varies from…

Descriptors: College Students, Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education