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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"verb bias"”.
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Modeling the mechanisms of verb bias learning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Investigating the mechanisms of verb bias learning
The student, Amanda Kelley, accepted the attached license on 2019-04-24 at 17:11.
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Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning in children and adults
Verb-specific preference for syntactic structure (verb bias) is considered as a critical parsing constraint that guides online sentence comprehension. Both adults and preschoolers show great sensitivity to verb bias in their temporary parsing commitment as sentences unfold in time. How do people …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
… The study focused on how factors like verb subcategorization (i.e. verb biases, properties that a verb tends to take a direct object more than a sentential complement or vice versa) or context information influence such interpretation by using off-line and on-line reading times and …
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Linking verbs to syntax
… Bowerman, 1988). One of these constraints is verb bias. Verb bias refers to the likelihood of a verb to appear in one of the multiple structures that the verb is allowed to appear in. Adults and children as young as three years of age are guided by verb bias in language comprehension and …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
This dissertation examines factors (verb bias and plausibility) that influence reanalysis processes in native and non-native processing of English and Mandarin garden-path sentences (Chapters 2 and 3) and the relationship between the amount of reanalysis and final interpretation of such sentences …
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Lexical-syntactic representations in bilingual sentence production
… 4) and whether the syntactic preferences of verbs influence these priming effects (Chapter 5). To this aim, we conducted a series of syntactic priming experiments in which the structures of different syntactic constructions were primed within and between both languages of late Dutch-English …
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Bayesian modeling of manner and path psychological data
… It is hypothesized that a person acquires a bias to favor the characteristics of their native language, in order to aid word learning. Other hypothesized aids are syntactic bootstrapping, in which the learner assumes that the meaning of a novel word is similar to that of other words used in a …