Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we neuroimaged deaf adults as they performed two linguistic tasks with sentences in American Sign Language, grammatical judgment and phonemic-hand judgment. Participants' age-onset of sign language acquisition ranged from birth to 14 years; length of sign language experience was substantial and did not vary in relation to age of acquisition. F...

Two experiments aimed at investigating how working memory capacity (WMC) related to processing wh-extractions in both a grammatical judgment and a translation task by using the Operation Span task. A self-paced paradigm was used to collect response times and accuracy rates. In Experiment 1, results showed that high WMC was related to faster grammatical judgment of the critical region in subject...

Recent evidence suggests that grammatical aspect can bias how individuals perceive criminal intentionality during discourse comprehension. Given that criminal intentionality is a common criterion for legal definitions (e.g., first-degree murder), the present study explored whether grammatical aspect may also impact legal judgments. In a series of four experiments participants were provided with...

This study aimed to investigate what is really learned in artificial grammar (AG) learning and how selective attention influences AG learning. In the learning phase, depending on the aspects of GLOCAL strings—chains of compound letters that can allow two different AGs— participants were presented with two different series of letter strings. Their selective attention was manipulated by the exper...

Title of dissertation: A PROGRAM FOR EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX: FINDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCEPTABILITY AND GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE Jon Sprouse Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Howard Lasnik Department of Linguistics There has always been interest in the methodology of acceptability judgment collection, as well as the reliability of the results. It seems, though, th...

The paper presents the results of the first large-scale human evaluation of automatic grammatical error correction (GEC) systems. Twelve participating systems and the unchanged input of the CoNLL-2014 shared task have been reassessed in a WMT-inspired human evaluation procedure. Methods introduced for the Workshop of Machine Translation evaluation campaigns have been adapted to GEC and extended...

The sequencing of dance movements may be thought of as a grammar. We investigate implicit learning of regularities that govern sequences of unfamiliar, discrete dance movements. It was hypothesized that observers without prior experience with contemporary dance would be able to learn regularities that underpin structured human movement. Thirty-one adults were assigned to either an exposure or a...