Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:49:42 BST CiteULike: briordan Sedivy http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/author/Sedivy CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/406701 <i>Cognition, Vol. 71, No. 2. (22 June 1999), pp. 109-147.</i><br /><br />While much work has been done investigating the role of context in the incremental processing of syntactic indeterminacies, relatively little is known about online semantic interpretation. The experiments in this article made use of the eye-tracking paradigm with spoken language and visual contexts in order to examine how, and when listeners make use of contextually-defined contrast in interpreting simple prenominal adjectives. Experiment 1 focused on intersective adjectives. Experiment 1A provided further evidence that intersective adjectives are processed incrementally. Experiment 1B compared response times to follow instructions such as ‘Pick up the blue comb' under conditions where there were two blue objects (e.g. a blue pen and a blue comb), but only one of these objects had a contrasting member in the display. Responses were faster to objects with a contrasting member, establishing that the listeners initially assume a contrastive interpretation for intersective adjectives. Experiments 2 and 3 focused on vague scalar adjectives examining the time course with which listeners establish contrast for scalar adjectives such as tall using information provided by the head noun (e.g. glass) and information provided by the visual context. Use of head-based information was examined by manipulating the typicality of the target object (e.g. whether it was a good or poor example of a tall glass. Use of context-dependent contrast was examined by either having only a single glass in the display (the no contrast condition) or a contrasting object (e.g. a smaller glass). The pattern of results indicated that listeners interpreted the scalar adjective incrementally taking into account context-specific contrast prior to encountering the head. Moreover, the presence of a contrasting object, sharply reduced, and in some conditions completely eliminated, typicality effects. The results suggest a language processing system in which semantic interpretation, as well as syntactic processing, is conducted incrementally, with early integration of contextual information. Achieving incremental semantic interpretation through contextual representation Julie Sedivy Tanenhaus Craig Chambers Gregory Carlson doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00025-6 Cognition, Vol. 71, No. 2. (22 June 1999), pp. 109-147. 2005-11-23T21:19:03-00:00 1999 Cognition 71 2 109 147 eye-movements sentence-comprehension visual-world-paradigm http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/2641647 <i>Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 32, No. 1. (January 2006), pp. 1-14.</i> Eye Movements to Pictures Reveal Transient Semantic Activation During Spoken Word Recognition Eiling Yee Julie Sedivy Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Vol. 32, No. 1. (January 2006), pp. 1-14. 2008-04-08T13:54:18-00:00 2006 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32 1 1 14 eye-movements semantic-organization spoken-word-recognition visual-world-paradigm word-association http://www.citeulike.org/user/briordan/article/180115 <i>Science, Vol. 268, No. 5217. (16 June 1995), pp. 1632-1634.</i><br /><br />Psycholinguists have commonly assumed that as a spoken linguistic message unfolds over time, it is initially structured by a syntactic processing module that is encapsulated from information provided by other perceptual and cognitive systems. To test the effects of relevant visual context on the rapid mental processes that accompany spoken language comprehension, eye movements were recorded with a head-mounted eye-tracking system while subjects followed instructions to manipulate real objects. Visual context influenced spoken word recognition and mediated syntactic processing, even during the earliest moments of language processing. Integration of visual and linguistic information in spoken language comprehension. MK Tanenhaus MJ Spivey-Knowlton KM Eberhard JC Sedivy doi:10.1126/science.7777863 Science, Vol. 268, No. 5217. (16 June 1995), pp. 1632-1634. 2005-05-04T15:58:39-00:00 1995 Science 0036-8075 268 5217 1632 1634 eye-movements