Four structural priming experiments investigated the lexical boost effect in priming. In two experiments, we tested whether repeating subject prepositional object or double ditransitive structures boosted other manipulated repetition of verb. Repetition noun affected priming, but only when prime remained visible while participants produced target sentence. contrast, verb regardless could see an...

The effectiveness of two repair strategies, repetition and paraphrasing, in enhancing speechreading performance was evaluated on 20 young adults with normal hearing using both word and sentence test stimuli. Both strategy types produced significant improvement, and the repeat strategy yielded the greatest gains overall. Paraphrasing resulted in the most enhancement for words, while repetition w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability of temporal and frontal functional MRI (fMRI) activation for the assessment of language dominance, as compared with the Wada test. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients with temporal lobe epilepsy were studied using blood oxygen level dependent fMRI and echoplanar imaging (1.5-T). Three tasks were used: semantic verbal fluency, covert sentence repetition, and...

This article is concerned with how people process text in the presence or absence of a relevant schema. In particular, we focus on the effects of schema availability and concept repetition on both on-line integration and memory for text. Subjects were required to read "vague" texts (like Bransford and Johnson's, 1972, well-known "washing clothes" story) and their reading time for each sentence ...

O’Neill’s The Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) is a collection foundational importance for the modern performance practice Irish traditional music. This article examines 365 double jigs this in terms their patterns motivic repetition using an analytical methodology devised to explicate and compare melodic structures each part. dataset demonstrates prevalence four standard structures: pe...

A text partition model is proposed to determine the boundaries of discourse structures. It is based on association of noun-noun relations and noun-verb relations defined on discourse level and sentence level. Three factors are considered: 1) repetition of words, 2) importance of words, and 3) collocational semantics. Ten texts serve as experimental objects. The applications of the results to se...

An associationist model for sentence memory is described that assumes a configuration of independent associations underlies the memory trace for a simple sentence. Thxs is contrasted with a gestalt hypothesis that postulates a unitary trace for the simple sentence. The associationist model, but not the gestalt model, leads to two predictions that were confirmed: (a) incomplete recall of simple ...