%0 Journal Article
%A Hudson, Jennifer
%A http://www.michaeljackson.com/de/home, 
%T listen
%D 2006


%0 Journal Article
%A Bock, Kathryn
%A Butterfield, Sally
%A Cutler, Anne
%A Cutting, J. Cooper
%A Eberhard, Kathleen M.
%A Humphreys, Karin R.
%T Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively
%G eng
%F EDOC: 278166
%D 2006
%Z Review method: peer-reviewed
%X British andAmerican speakers exhibit different verb number agreement patterns when sentence subjects have collective headnouns. From linguistic andpsycholinguistic accounts of how agreement is implemented, three alternative hypotheses can be derived to explain these differences. The hypotheses involve variations in the representation of notional number, disparities in how notional andgrammatical number are used, and inequalities in the grammatical number specifications of collective nouns. We carriedout a series of corpus analyses, production experiments, andnorming studies to test these hypotheses. The results converge to suggest that British and American speakers are equally sensitive to variations in notional number andimplement subjectverb agreement in much the same way, but are likely to differ in the lexical specifications of number for collectives. The findings support a psycholinguistic theory that explains verb and pronoun agreement within a parallel architecture of lexical andsyntactic formulation.
%J Language
%V 82
%N 1
%& 64
%P 64 - 113


%0 Journal Article
%A Senghas, Ann
%A Ozyurek, Asli
%A Kita, Sotaro
%T [Response to comment on Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua]
%G eng
%F EDOC: 277438
%U http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/309/5731/56c.pdf
%R 10.1126/science.1110901
%D 2005
%J Science
%V 309
%N 5731
%& 56c
%P 56c - 56c


%0 Journal Article
%A Bastiaansen, Marcel C. M.
%A Böcker, Koen B. E.
%A Brunia, Cornelis H. M.
%T ERD as an index of anticipatory attention? Effects of stimulus degradation
%F EDOC: 25831
%R 10.1111/1469-8986.3910016
%D 2002
%Z Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Previous research has suggested that the stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) is largely independent of stimulus modality. In contrast, the scalp topography of the event related desynchronization (ERD) related to the anticipation of stimuli providing knowledge of results (KR) is modality dependent. These findings, combined with functional SPN research, lead to the hypothesis that anticipatory ERD reflects anticipatory attention, whereas the SPN mainly depends on the affective-motivational properties of the anticipated stimulus. To further investigate the prestimulus ERD, and compare this measure with the SPN, 12 participants performed a time-estimation task, and were informed about the quality of their time estimation by an auditory or a visual stimulus providing KR. The KR stimuli could be either intact or degraded.
Auditory degraded KR stimuli were less effective than other KR stimuli in guiding subsequent behavior, and were preceded by a larger SPN. There were no effects of degradation on the SPN in the visual modality. Preceding auditory KR stimuli no ERD was present, whereas preceding visual stimuli an occipital ERD was found. However, contrary to expectation, the latter was larger preceding intact than preceding degraded stimuli. It is concluded that the data largely agree with an interpretation of the pre-KR SPN as a reflection of the anticipation of the affective-motivational value of KR stimuli, and of the prestimulus ERD as a perceptual anticipatory attention process.
%J Psychophysiology
%V 39
%N 1
%& 16
%P 16 - 28


%0 Journal Article
%A Broeder, Daan
%A Wittenburg, Peter
%T The IMDI metadata framework, its current application and future direction
%G eng
%F EDOC: 322632
%R 10.1504/IJMSO.2006.011008
%D 2006
%Z Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The IMDI Framework offers next to a suitable set of metadata descriptors for language resources, a set of tools and an infrastructure to use these. This paper gives an overview of all these aspects and at the end describes the intentions and hopes for ensuring the interoperability of the IMDI framework within more general ones in development. An evaluation of the current state of the IMDI Framework is presented with an analysis of the benefits and more problematic issues. Finally we describe work on issues of long-term stability for IMDI by linking up to the work done within the ISO TC37/SC4 subcommittee (TC37/SC4).
%J International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
%V 1
%N 2
%& 119
%P 119 - 132


%0 Journal Article
%A Huettig, Falk
%A Quinlan, Philip T.
%A McDonald, Scott A.
%A Altmann, Gerry T. M.
%T Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world
%G eng
%F EDOC: 398837
%R 10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.06.002
%D 2006
%Z Review method: peer-reviewed
%X In the visual world paradigm, participants are more likely to fixate a visual referent that has some semantic relationship with a heard word, than they are to fixate an unrelated referent [Cooper, R. M. (1974). The control of eye fixation by the meaning of spoken language. A new methodology for the real-time investigation of speech perception, memory, and language processing. Cognitive Psychology, 6, 813–839]. Here, this method is used to examine the psychological validity of models of high-dimensional semantic space. The data strongly suggest that these corpus-based measures of word semantics predict fixation behavior in the visual world and provide further evidence that language-mediated eye movements to objects in the concurrent visual environment are driven by semantic similarity rather than all-or-none categorical knowledge. The data suggest that the visual world paradigm can, together with other methodologies, converge on the evidence that may help adjudicate between different theoretical accounts of the psychological semantics.
%J Acta Psychologica
%V 121
%N 1
%& 65
%P 65 - 80