43323
2019
2019
eng
641
661
22
568
postprint
1
2019-10-23
2019-10-23
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Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing
Previous cross-modal priming studies showed that lexical decisions to words after a pronoun were facilitated when these words were semantically related to the pronoun’s antecedent. These studies suggested that semantic priming effectively measured antecedent retrieval during coreference. We examined whether these effects extended to implicit reading comprehension using the N400 response. The results of three experiments did not yield strong evidence of semantic facilitation due to coreference. Further, the comparison with two additional experiments showed that N400 facilitation effects were reduced in sentences (vs. word pair paradigms) and were modulated by the case morphology of the prime word. We propose that priming effects in cross-modal experiments may have resulted from task-related strategies. More generally, the impact of sentence context and morphological information on priming effects suggests that they may depend on the extent to which the upcoming input is predicted, rather than automatic spreading activation between semantically related words.
Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
evidence from the N400
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-433237
10.25932/publishup-43323
1866-8364
online registration
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 34 (2019) 5, S. 641-661 DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1566561
<a href="http://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/50739">Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle</a>
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Sol Lago
Anna Namyst
Lena Ann Jäger
Ellen Lau
Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
568
eng
uncontrolled
coreference
eng
uncontrolled
semantic priming
eng
uncontrolled
event-related potentials
eng
uncontrolled
sentence comprehension
eng
uncontrolled
N400
Psychologie
Sprache
open_access
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Referiert
Open Access
Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement
Universität Potsdam
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/43323/phr568.pdf
50739
2019
2019
eng
641
661
21
5
34
article
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Abingdon
1
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Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing
Previous cross-modal priming studies showed that lexical decisions to words after a pronoun were facilitated when these words were semantically related to the pronoun's antecedent. These studies suggested that semantic priming effectively measured antecedent retrieval during coreference. We examined whether these effects extended to implicit reading comprehension using the N400 response. The results of three experiments did not yield strong evidence of semantic facilitation due to coreference. Further, the comparison with two additional experiments showed that N400 facilitation effects were reduced in sentences (vs. word pair paradigms) and were modulated by the case morphology of the prime word. We propose that priming effects in cross-modal experiments may have resulted from task-related strategies. More generally, the impact of sentence context and morphological information on priming effects suggests that they may depend on the extent to which the upcoming input is predicted, rather than automatic spreading activation between semantically related words.
Language, cognition and neuroscience
evidence from the N400
10.1080/23273798.2019.1566561
2327-3798
2327-3801
wos:2019
WOS:000462949000007
Lago, S (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Dept Linguist, Potsdam, Germany., marlago@uni-potsdam.de
German Research CouncilGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [LA 3774/1-1, 317633480 - SFB 1287]
2021-05-19T08:42:23+00:00
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false
true
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Sol Lago
Anna Namyst
Lena Ann Jäger
Ellen Lau
eng
uncontrolled
Coreference
eng
uncontrolled
semantic priming
eng
uncontrolled
event-related potentials
eng
uncontrolled
sentence comprehension
eng
uncontrolled
N400
Psychologie
Sprache
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
Bronze Open-Access
48962
2019
2019
eng
319
349
31
3
35
article
Sage Publ.
London
1
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The role of native and non-native grammars in the comprehension of possessive pronouns
Previous studies have shown that multilingual speakers are influenced by their native (L1) and non-native (L2) grammars when learning a new language. But, so far, these studies have mostly used untimed metalinguistic tasks. Here we examine whether multilinguals’ prior grammars also affect their sensitivity to morphosyntactic constraints during processing. We use speeded judgment and self-paced reading tasks to examine the comprehension of German possessive pronouns. To investigate whether native and non-native grammars differentially affect participants’ performance, we compare two groups of non-native German speakers with inverse L1–L2 distributions: a group with L1 Spanish – L2 English, and a group with L1 English – L2 Spanish. We show that the reading profiles of both groups are modulated by their L1 grammar, with L2 proficiency selectively affecting participants’ judgment accuracy but not their reading times. We propose that reading comprehension is mainly influenced by multilinguals’ native grammar, but that knowledge of an L2 grammar can further increase sensitivity to morphosyntactic violations in an additional language.
Second language research
10.1177/0267658318770491
0267-6583
1477-0326
wos:2019
WOS:000471767200002
Lago, S (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam Res Inst Multilingualism, Campus Golm,Haus 2,Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., marlago@uni-potsdam.de
Alexander-von-Humboldt professorshipAlexander von Humboldt Foundation; DAADDeutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
2021-01-18T13:46:48+00:00
sword
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Lago, Sol
false
true
Sol Lago
Anna Stutter Garcia
Claudia Felser
eng
uncontrolled
comprehension
eng
uncontrolled
English
eng
uncontrolled
gender agreement
eng
uncontrolled
German
eng
uncontrolled
multilingualism
eng
uncontrolled
Spanish
Linguistik
Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften
Import
59693
2021
eng
807
812
6
5
24
article
Cambridge Univ. Press
Cambridge
1
2021-03-29
2021-03-29
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The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research
Preregistration is an open science practice that requires the specification of research hypotheses and analysis plans before the data are inspected. Here, we discuss the benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven, confirmatory bilingualism research. Using examples from psycholinguistics and bilingualism, we illustrate how non-peer reviewed preregistrations can serve to implement a clean distinction between hypothesis testing and data exploration. This distinction helps researchers avoid casting post-hoc hypotheses and analyses as confirmatory ones. We argue that, in keeping with current best practices in the experimental sciences, preregistration, along with sharing data and code, should be an integral part of hypothesis-driven bilingualism research.
Bilingualism : language and cognition
10.1017/S1366728921000031
1366-7289
1469-1841
wos:2021
PII S1366728921000031
WOS:000721316600005
Mertzen, D (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Dept Linguist, Campus Golm,Haus 14,Karl Liebknecht Str 24, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., mertzen@uni-potsdam.de
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)German Research Foundation (DFG) [317633480 -SFB 1287]
Mertzen, Daniela
2023-06-22T08:28:01+00:00
sword
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false
true
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Daniela Mertzen
Sol Lago
Shravan Vasishth
eng
uncontrolled
preregistration
eng
uncontrolled
open science
eng
uncontrolled
bilingualism
eng
uncontrolled
psycholinguistics
eng
uncontrolled
confirmatory analysis
eng
uncontrolled
exploratory analysis
Psychologie
Sprache
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Import
Hybrid Open-Access
38807
2015
2015
eng
133
149
17
82
article
Elsevier
San Diego
1
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--
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Agreement attraction in Spanish comprehension
Previous studies have found that English speakers experience attraction effects when comprehending subject-verb agreement, showing eased processing of ungrammatical sentences that contain a syntactically unlicensed but number-matching noun. In four self-paced reading experiments we examine whether attraction effects also occur in Spanish, a language where agreement morphology is richer and functionally more significant. We find that despite having a richer morphology, Spanish speakers show reliable attraction effects in comprehension, and that these effects are strikingly similar to those previously found in English in their magnitude and distributional profile. Further, we use distributional analyses to argue that cue-based memory retrieval is used as an error-driven mechanism in comprehension. We suggest that cross-linguistic similarities in agreement attraction result from speakers deploying repair or error-driven mechanisms uniformly across languages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Journal of memory and language
10.1016/j.jml.2015.02.002
0749-596X
1096-0821
wos:2015
WOS:000355041900008
Lago, S (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam Res Inst Multilingualism, Campus Golm,Haus 2,Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Golm, Germany., marlago@uni-potsdam.de
NSF grant [BCS-0848554]
Sol Lago
Diego E. Shalom
Mariano Sigman
Ellen F. Lau
Colin Phillips
eng
uncontrolled
Agreement attraction
eng
uncontrolled
Number morphology
eng
uncontrolled
Spanish
eng
uncontrolled
Sentence comprehension
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
46694
2017
2017
eng
795
817
23
43
article
American Psychological Association
Washington
1
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--
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Coreference and Antecedent Representation Across Languages
Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition
10.1037/xlm0000343
28068123
0278-7393
1939-1285
wos:2017
WOS:000400568800010
Lago, S (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam Res Inst Multilingualism, Campus Golm,Haus 2,Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., marlago@uni-potsdam.de
importub
2020-04-20T03:36:01+00:00
filename=package.tar
bf52b480d69d224d821107056b03b5f5
Sol Lago
Shayne Sloggett
Zoe Schlüter
Wing Yee Chow
Alexander Williams
Ellen Lau
Colin Phillips
eng
uncontrolled
coreference
eng
uncontrolled
German
eng
uncontrolled
English
eng
uncontrolled
sentence comprehension
eng
uncontrolled
eye-tracking
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
Institut für Psychologie
46489
2017
2017
eng
691
693
3
20
other
Cambridge Univ. Press
New York
1
--
--
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L2 processing and memory retrieval: Some empirical and conceptual challenges
Bilingualism : language and cognition.
10.1017/S1366728916000948
1366-7289
1469-1841
wos:2017
WOS:000405809400009
Lago, S (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam Res Inst Multilingualism, Haus 2,Campus Golm,Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., marlago@uni-potsdam.de
importub
2020-04-20T01:54:01+00:00
filename=package.tar
197b63bac98c0821054c31157112471c
Gunnar Jacob
Sol Lago
Clare Patterson
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Import
Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
62779
2021
2021
eng
833
841
9
5
24
article
Cambridge Univ. Press
Cambridge
1
2020-12-10
2021-11-26
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Divergence point analyses of visual world data
Much work has shown that differences in the timecourse of language processing are central to comparing native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers. However, estimating the onset of experimental effects in timecourse data presents several statistical problems including multiple comparisons and autocorrelation. We compare several approaches to tackling these problems and illustrate them using an L1-L2 visual world eye-tracking dataset. We then present a bootstrapping procedure that allows not only estimation of an effect onset, but also of a temporal confidence interval around this divergence point. We describe how divergence points can be used to demonstrate timecourse differences between speaker groups or between experimental manipulations, two important issues in evaluating L2 processing accounts. We discuss possible extensions of the bootstrapping procedure, including determining divergence points for individual speakers and correlating them with individual factors like L2 exposure and proficiency. Data and an analysis tutorial are available at https://osf.io/exbmk/.
Bilingualism : language and cognition
applications to bilingual research
10.1017/S1366728920000607
1366-7289
1469-1841
outputup:dataSource:WoS:2021
PII S1366728920000607
WOS:000721316600009
Stone, Kate (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany., stone@uni-potsdam.de
German Research Council, German Research Foundation (DFG) [LA 3774/1-1]
2024-02-26T10:27:31+00:00
sword
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37cd6c514b6f6b94b85a81e8c88f1444
Stone, Kate
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Kate Stone
Sol Lago
Daniel Schad
eng
uncontrolled
divergence point analyses
eng
uncontrolled
non-parametric approaches
eng
uncontrolled
bootstrapping
eng
uncontrolled
visual world eye-tracking
eng
uncontrolled
bilingualism
Psychologie
Sprache
Referiert
Department Psychologie
Import
Hybrid Open-Access
60735
2020
2020
eng
30
1
5
article
Open Library of Humanities
London
1
2020-03-02
2020-03-02
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Island effects in Spanish comprehension
A growing body of experimental syntactic research has revealed substantial variation in the magnitude of island effects, not only across languages but also across different grammatical constructions. Adopting a well-established experimental design, the present study examines island effects in Spanish using a speeded acceptability judgment task. To quantify variation across grammatical constructions, we tested extraction from four different types of structure (subjects, complex noun phrases, adjuncts and interrogative clauses). The results of Bayesian mixed effects modelling showed that the size of island effects varied between constructions, such that there was clear evidence of subject, adjunct and interrogative island effects, but not of complex noun phrase island effects. We also failed to find evidence that island effects were modulated by participants' working memory capacity as measured by an operation span task. To account for our results, we suggest that variability in island effects across constructions may be due to the interaction of syntactic, semantic-pragmatic and processing factors, which may affect island types differentially due to their idiosyncratic properties.
Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
10.5334/gjgl.1058
2397-1835
outputup:dataSource:WoS:2020
21
WOS:000518674900001
Paneda, C (corresponding author), Univ Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain., panedaclaudia@uniovi.es
Government of Asturias, Spain [PA-17-PF-BP16105]; Fundacion Banco; Sabadell; Spanish Government (FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y; Universidades -Agencia Estatal de Investigacion) [FFI2017-87699-P]
Pañeda, Claudia
2023-09-14T08:09:18+00:00
sword
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2851511-0
false
true
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Claudia Pañeda
Sol Lago
Elena Vares
João Marques Veríssimo
Claudia Felser
eng
uncontrolled
extraction islands
eng
uncontrolled
Spanish
eng
uncontrolled
reading comprehension
eng
uncontrolled
working memory
eng
uncontrolled
sentence processing
Linguistik
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Import
Gold Open-Access
DOAJ gelistet
59901
2021
2021
eng
30
8
45
article
Wiley-Blackwell
Malden, Mass.
1
2021-08-11
2021-08-11
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Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction
We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better accounted for by an encoding-based model of agreement attraction, compared to a retrieval-based model. A novel methodological contribution of our study is the use of comprehension questions with open-ended responses, so that both misinterpretation of the number feature of the subject phrase and misassignment of the thematic subject role of the verb can be investigated at the same time. We find evidence for both types of misinterpretation in our study, sometimes in the same trial. However, the specific error patterns in our data are not fully consistent with any previously proposed model.
Cognitive science
a computational evaluation
10.1111/cogs.13019
34379348
0364-0213
1551-6709
outputup:dataSource:PubMed:2021
e13019
WOS:000690769800005
Paape, D (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Dept Linguist, Haus 14,Karl Liebknecht Str 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., paape@uni-potsdam.de
University of Potsdam; Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship [2012-0025-EMII-EMJ]; Projekt DEAL
Paape, Dario
2023-07-06T10:00:16+00:00
sword
importub
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ef8a8c657af89a4f38e4e83f848d0a74
2002940-8
false
true
CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
Dario Paape
Serine Avetisyan
Sol Lago
Shravan Vasishth
eng
uncontrolled
Agreement attraction
eng
uncontrolled
Eastern Armenian
eng
uncontrolled
Self-paced reading
eng
uncontrolled
Computational modeling
Psychologie
Sprache
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Import
Hybrid Open-Access
58834
2020
2020
eng
18
112
article
Elsevier
San Diego
1
2020-02-14
2020-02-14
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Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension?
Previous studies have suggested that distinctive case marking on noun phrases reduces attraction effects in production, i.e., the tendency to produce a verb that agrees with a nonsubject noun. An important open question is whether attraction effects are modulated by case information in sentence comprehension. To address this question, we conducted three attraction experiments in Armenian, a language with a rich and productive case system. The experiments showed clear attraction effects, and they also revealed an overall role of case marking such that participants showed faster response and reading times when the nouns in the sentence had different case. However, we found little indication that distinctive case marking modulated attraction effects. We present a theoretical proposal of how case and number information may be used differentially during agreement licensing in comprehension. More generally, this work sheds light on the nature of the retrieval cues deployed when completing morphosyntactic dependencies.
Journal of memory and language
10.1016/j.jml.2020.104087
0749-596X
1096-0821
outputup:dataSource:WoS:2020
104087
WOS:000527909900002
Avetisyan, S (corresponding author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany., serine.avetisyan@gmail.com
University of Potsdam; Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship; [2012-0025-EM II-EMJD]
Avetisyan, Serine
2023-04-14T09:14:53+00:00
sword
importub
filename=package.tar
79f651cb8c94bd450baea99dc1e08295
1469677-0
false
true
CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
Serine Avetisyan
Sol Lago
Shravan Vasishth
eng
uncontrolled
subject-verb agreement
eng
uncontrolled
attraction
eng
uncontrolled
Case
eng
uncontrolled
Eastern Armenian
eng
uncontrolled
cue-based
eng
uncontrolled
retrieval
eng
uncontrolled
comprehension
Psychologie
Linguistik
Referiert
Department Linguistik
Import
Hybrid Open-Access