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Understanding the constraints on syntactic generation: lexical bias and discourse congruency effects on eye movements

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Eye movement during reading short stories showed the relative frequency of noun and verb forms was located in local fixation on the homograph, while discourse congruency did not appear until several words downstream. Lexical bias appears to reflect processing difficulty in the initial generation of syntax, and discourse congruency shows later anomaly detection.

Grammar, Comparative and general, Parsing, Syntax, Discourse analysis

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When conceptual pacts are broken: partner-specific effects on the comprehension of referring expressions

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The relationship between lexical entrainment and conceptual pacts with reference to objects is studied. It emerges that when the conceptual pact between speaker and listener is broken, a small but measurable delay occurs in the early stage of the resolution process as well as in the later decision process before the object is touched.

Evaluation, Conversation, Expression, Lexical phonology

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How listeners compensate for disfluencies in spontaneous speech

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Issues concerning the manner in which listeners disregard meaningless or mistaken aspects in speech, called "disfluencies," such as the sound "uh" or mispoken words or partial words, that are later corrected, are examined.

Speech, Listening, Listening comprehension tests, Listening comprehension

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