The study discusses the role of prosodic grouping in the Mandarin Relative Clause attachment disambiguation. The grouping effect is explored under the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH) from four aspects of sentence processing experiments: default production, contrast production, online processing, as well as offline processing. It is found that (1) the length of RC greatly impacts ambiguity res...

Text comprehension processes were investigated in children with hydrocephalus, a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with good word decoding, but deficient reading comprehension. In Experiment 1, hydrocephalus and control groups were similar in processes related to activating word meanings and using context to enhance meaning. The hydrocephalus group was poorer at suppressing contextually ir...

We investigated the influence of sentence context on initial integration of novel word meanings into semantic memory. Adults read strongly or weakly constrained sentences ending in known and unknown (novel) words as electrical brain activity was recorded. Word knowledge was assessed via a lexical decision task where recently seen known and unknown word sentence endings served as primes for rela...

only two voices have been represented in italian grammar. if we look at the passive constructions from a pragmatic point of view, it can be seen as a language strategy being classified as an event. this change of perspective creates different structures. in this article we shall study a speaker’s change of perspective in attention to the valence theory. according to this theory, a verb on the b...

The same word can have many different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. Discovering the meaning of a word, given the text around it, has been an interesting problem for both the psychology and the artificial intelligence research communities. In this article, we present a series of experiments, using methods which have proven to be useful for eliminating part-of-speech ambi...

Using Sentence Context and Implicit Contrast to Learn Sensor-Grounded Meanings for Relational and Deictic Words: The TWIG System