A Study of Semantic Association and Reference in the Visual World Paradigm

<p>This study provides an in-depth look at how the memory and language systems interact during spoken language comprehension. Experiment 1 examines how the strength of associative relationships in memory, as measured by lexical co-occurrence based corpus-derived scores (Mutual Information), affects spoken sentence comprehension. Experiment 2 examines the role of associative relationship in processing repeated discourse references back to the target item. Taken together, these experiments offer a look at the combined impact memory and language constraints have on spoken language processing at the sentence and discourse levels.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Peters, Sara Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Amit Almor

• Psychology
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Association
• Psycholinguistics
• Reference Processing
• Semantic Relatedness
• Statistics

Statement dc:rights

• © 2010, Sara Ann Peters

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/238

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-1239