Effect of ambiguity and lexical availability on syntactic and lexical production

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Speakers create sentences to clearly convey an idea while maintaining linguistic efficiency. In this study, six experiments were used to measure the influence of these two principles on the use of optional function words such as auxiliary verbs and complementizers. Results indicate that speakers use optional words to ease language processing rather than to avoid sentence ambiguity.

Grammar, Comparative and general, Grammar, Oral communication, Words

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Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time

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This article examines whether or not the language one speaks influences their perception of the world. The author, comparing English and Mandarin speakers' conception of time, maintains the results demonstrated that English speakers talked about time as horizontal and Mandarin speakers referred to it as vertical, arguing language helps shape thoughts of abstract domains.

China, Social aspects, Time perception, Thought and thinking, Thinking

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Do phonological representations specify variables? Evidence from the obligatory contour principle

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This article investigates the representation of linguistic variables by examining the role of a phonological constraint on gemination, or the repetition of speech sounds, in Hebrew. Three experiments indicate that variables play a role in language production and that Hebrew speakers use tacit knowledge to constrain variables in word roots.

Israel, Cognition, Phonetics, Mental representation, Hebrew language, Mental representations

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