Short-term Memory Retrievals and Expectation in On-line Sentence Comprehension: The Effects of Recent Linguistic Context.
dc.contributor.author | Bartek, Brian D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-15T17:10:17Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2011-09-15T17:10:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/86317 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding how short-term memory shapes sentence comprehension processes is a long-standing topic in psycholinguistics. This thesis pursues new insights on two facets of short-term memory’s role in sentence comprehension: (a) The first four experiments search for, and obtain, concrete evidence that locality effects, or increased integration difficulty attending increased dependent-head distance, occur even in simple sentence, where memory-based theories predict them and other theo- ries (such as experience- or expectation-based theories) do not. (b) The remainder of the thesis investigates the functional interplay between similarity-based interference and expectation. Expectation has been argued to facilitate processing at verbs by pre-activating lexical representations, and similarity between representations of recently linguistic context has been shown to slow processing of verbs by slowing integration of its dependencies with arguments; yet the relationship between these two potentially interacting processes has received neither theoretical nor empirical attention. This thesis presents a novel eyetracking experiment that finds effects of both expectation-based facilitation and retrieval-based difficulty on the integration of a subject-verb dependency, but no evidence of an interaction. This evidence sup- ports a simple model of expectation and retrieval interference in which expectation effects play out in early, lexical processing while dependency integration processes occur later without interacting with expectation. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Working Memory | en_US |
dc.subject | Sentence Processing | en_US |
dc.subject | Expectation | en_US |
dc.subject | Similarity-based Interference | en_US |
dc.subject | Locality | en_US |
dc.title | Short-term Memory Retrievals and Expectation in On-line Sentence Comprehension: The Effects of Recent Linguistic Context. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Psychology | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Lewis, Richard L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Boland, Julie | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Meyer, David E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Vasishth, Shravan | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86317/1/bartek_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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