Mirjana Bozic
(University of Cambridge)
6/22/17, 11:10 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
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There is substantial evidence pointing to an early, automatic segmentation of written words into their constituent units (farm-er, wit-ness); however, less is known about the potential role of contextual information in modulating this analysis. We adapted the standard masked priming paradigm to include an overt semantic prime in order to examine whether semantic context influences...
Yael Farhy
(University of Potsdam)
6/22/17, 11:30 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
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Morphological priming effects are often interpreted as evidence that complex words are represented in terms of their constituent structure (Marslen-Wilson et al., 1994). Alternatively, Connectionist approaches attribute these priming effects to phonological and semantic overlap, without resorting to structured representations (Gonnerman et al., 2007). Evidence for the role of morphological...
Simona Amenta
(Ghent University)
6/22/17, 11:50 AM
Freely Contributed Paper
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The role of semantics in the early stages of morphological processing has been extensively studied, but results have been at times inconsistent.
To address this issue we propose the application of Orthography-Semantic Consistency (OSC), a measure of how well the meaning of a given word can be predicted from its form. OSC is operationally defined as the degree of semantic relatedness between...
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen
(University of Turku)
6/22/17, 12:10 PM
Freely Contributed Paper
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Studies have shown that during sentence processing people generate expectations about upcoming input which modulate processing time (see Kamide, Altmann, & Haywood, 2003; Levy, 2008). In this study, we investigate how probability-based expectations about grammatical aspect, i.e., the internal flow of time in an event, influence online processing (see Madden & Zwaan, 2003; Ferretti, Kutas, &...
