Putting things in new places: Linguistic experience modulates the predictive power of placement verb semantics
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.05.003
Abstract: Abstract A central question regarding predictive language processing concerns the extent to which linguistic experience modulates the process. We approached this question by investigating sentence processing in advanced second language (L2) users with different native… read more here.
Keywords: experience modulates; placement verb; placement; semantics ... See more keywords
Expectation-based Comprehension: Modeling the Interaction of World Knowledge and Linguistic Experience
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DOI: 10.1080/0163853x.2018.1448677
Abstract: ABSTRACT The processing difficulty of each word we encounter in a sentence is affected by both our prior linguistic experience and our general knowledge about the world. Computational models of incremental language processing have, however,… read more here.
Keywords: world; world knowledge; linguistic experience; word ... See more keywords
The role of linguistic experience in the processing of probabilistic information in production
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DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1375129
Abstract: ABSTRACT Speakers track the probability that a word will occur in a particular context and utilise this information during phonetic processing. For example, content words that have high probability within a discourse tend to be… read more here.
Keywords: information; processing; information production; probabilistic information ... See more keywords
Selective attention to a talker's mouth in infancy: role of audiovisual temporal synchrony and linguistic experience.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.12381
Abstract: Previous studies have found that infants shift their attention from the eyes to the mouth of a talker when they enter the canonical babbling phase after 6 months of age. Here, we investigated whether this… read more here.
Keywords: mouth; synchrony linguistic; attention; talker ... See more keywords