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Testing the viability of web DMDX for masked priming experiments
(2012)
Purpose:
• Evaluate the viability of a web-based version of the
DMDX software package (web DMDX).
• It was unclear whether web DMDX allowed for the
consistent and accurate display of experimental
stimuli.
Research ...
Form Interference Effects During Silent Reading
(2013)
Although many studies have shown that phonological repetition causes reading comprehension difficulties, the nature of these processing costs remains unclear. Purpose of the study: to shed light on this issue by examining ...
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence from Russian
(2014)
Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to:
• ...
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
(July 20-22)
Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ...
The Effects of Anaphor Form and Antecedent Type on Anaphoric Processing
(15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2008)
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(2013-06-07)
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...