TY  - GEN
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Logacev, Pavel
A1  - Gattei, Carolina
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up
BT  - Working Memory and Locality Effects
N2  - We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling for expectation (Levy, 2008) and other factors. We predicted only locality effects, that is, a slowdown produced by increased dependency distance (Gibson, 2000; Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). Furthermore, we expected stronger locality effects for readers with low working memory capacity. Contrary to our predictions, low-capacity readers showed faster reading with increased distance, while high-capacity readers showed locality effects. We suggest that while the locality effects are compatible with memory-based explanations, the speedup of low-capacity readers can be explained by an increased probability of retrieval failure. We present a computational model based on ACT-R built under the previous assumptions, which is able to give a qualitative account for the present data and can be tested in future research. Our results suggest that in some cases, interpreting longer RTs as indexing increased processing difficulty and shorter RTs as facilitation may be too simplistic: The same increase in processing difficulty may lead to slowdowns in high-capacity readers and speedups in low-capacity ones. Ignoring individual level capacity differences when investigating locality effects may lead to misleading conclusions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 288 
KW  - locality
KW  - working memory capacity
KW  - individual differences
KW  - Spanish
KW  - German
KW  - ACT-R
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90663
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nicenboim, Bruno
A1  - Logacev, Pavel
A1  - Gattei, Carolina
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - When High-Capacity Readers Slow Down and Low-Capacity Readers Speed Up
BT  - Working Memory and Locality Effects
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - We examined the effects of argument-head distance in SVO and SOV languages (Spanish and German), while taking into account readers' working memory capacity and controlling for expectation (Levy, 2008) and other factors. We predicted only locality effects, that is, a slowdown produced by increased dependency distance (Gibson, 2000; Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). Furthermore, we expected stronger locality effects for readers with low working memory capacity. Contrary to our predictions, low-capacity readers showed faster reading with increased distance, while high-capacity readers showed locality effects. We suggest that while the locality effects are compatible with memory-based explanations, the speedup of low-capacity readers can be explained by an increased probability of retrieval failure. We present a computational model based on ACT-R built under the previous assumptions, which is able to give a qualitative account for the present data and can be tested in future research. Our results suggest that in some cases, interpreting longer RTs as indexing increased processing difficulty and shorter RTs as facilitation may be too simplistic: The same increase in processing difficulty may lead to slowdowns in high-capacity readers and speedups in low-capacity ones. Ignoring individual level capacity differences when investigating locality effects may lead to misleading conclusions.
KW  - locality
KW  - working memory capacity
KW  - individual differences
KW  - Spanish
KW  - German
KW  - ACT-R
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00280
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 7
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
T1  - A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo empty set and creo
JF  - Folia linguistica
KW  - Cognitive Construction Grammar
KW  - parenthetic verbs
KW  - Spanish
KW  - corpus analysis
KW  - quantitativity/qualitativity
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2016-0017
SN  - 0165-4004
SN  - 1614-7308
VL  - 50
SP  - 449
EP  - 474
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Hennemann, Anja
T1  - A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo Ø and creo yo ‘[I] think’
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - The present study approaches the Spanish postposed constructions creo Ø and creo yo ‘[p], [I] think’ from a cognitive-constructionist perspective. It is argued that both constructions are to be distinguished from one another because creo Ø has a subjective function, while in creo yo, it is the intersubjective dimension that is particularly prominent. The present investigation takes both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. With regard to the latter, the problem of quantitative representativity is addressed. The discussion posed the question of how empirical research can feed back into theory, more precisely, into the framework of Cognitive Construction Grammar. The data to be analyzed here are retrieved from the corpora Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual and Corpus del Español.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 121 
KW  - Cognitive Construction Grammar
KW  - parenthetic verbs
KW  - Spanish
KW  - corpus analysis
KW  - quantitativity/qualitativity
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397485
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 121
ER  -