On the Role of Sentence Stress in Sentence Processing

On the role of sentence stress in sentence processing.

Words bearing high stress appear to be easier to process during sentence comprehension. Since sentence stress typically falls on content words this suggests that comprehension is organized according to a form class bias: process stressed items as content words. The present study measured reaction-time (RT) to word-initial phoneme targets on content and function words in sentence contexts. Half ...

On the Role of Sentence Stress in Sentence Processing*

Presupposition Role in the Compound-Complex Sentence

The article analyzes the role of presupposition in the compound-complex sentence. The authors examine the types of presuppositions and minimal compound-complex sentence as a field of presuppositions action. The analysis of these types of sentences by the material of the English language shows that several kinds of presuppositions are realized in them – contact or distant, - developing in the re...

Canonicity Effect on Sentence Processing of Persian-speaking Broca’s Patients

Introduction: Fundamental notions of mapping hypothesis and canonicity were scrutinized in Persian-speaking aphasics.  Methods: To this end, the performance of four age-, education-, and gender matched Persian-speaking Broca's patients and eight matched healthy controls in diverse complex structures were compared via the conduction of two tasks of syntactic comprehension and grammaticality jud...

Sentence Processing

representations that capture the similarities between these sentences. Production priming has only recently been used to study the nature of children’s linguistic abstractions. Some researchers have found evidence for abstract structural priming in threeand four-year-old children (Huttenlocher et al. 2004, Song & Fisher 2004). Others have not (Gamez et al. 2005, Savage et al. 2003). Recently we...