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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"human sentence processing"”.
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… the working memory mechanism subserving human sentence processing and its relative contribution to processing difficulty as compared to syntactic prediction. Within the last decades, evidence for a content-addressable memory system underlying human cognition in general has accumulated …
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Event Related Potentials: A Study of the Processing of Gapping Structures in Adolescents
… unanswered regarding the intricacies of the human brain, especially with regard to the complexities of language processing. One essential component of human sentence processing is the ability to detect, decipher, and recover from errors in the interpretation of both verbal and written …
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Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing
… show that the 1st-person pronoun facilitates processing, but not the 3rd-person pronoun. Moreover, children’s performance is modulated by additive effects of their memory and grammatical skills. In the Italian study (Chapter 3), the 1st-person pronoun advantage over the 3rd-person pronoun is …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
<p>Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., <em>She had planned to cram the paperwork in the drawer into her briefcase</em>) have been reported to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary …