Memory Operations that Support Language Comprehension: Evidence from Verb-Phrase Ellipsis

Autor/inn/en	Martin, Andrea E.; McElree, Brian
Titel	Memory Operations that Support Language Comprehension: Evidence from Verb-Phrase Ellipsis
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35 (2009) 5, S.1231-1239 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0016271
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Stimuli; Verbs; Memory; Interference (Language); Cognitive Processes; Language Processing; Cues; Adults; College Students; Sentences; Experiments; Experimental Psychology; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Anreizsystem; Gedächtnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Sprachverarbeitung; Stichwort; Collegestudent; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Erprobung; Experimentelle Psychologie
Abstract	Comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis (VPE) requires reevaluation of recently processed constituents, which often necessitates retrieval of information about the elided constituent from memory. A. E. Martin and B. McElree (2008) argued that representations formed during comprehension are content addressable and that VPE antecedents are retrieved from memory via a cue-dependent direct-access pointer rather than via a search process. This hypothesis was further tested by manipulating the location of interfering material--either before the onset of the antecedent (proactive interference; PI) or intervening between antecedent and ellipsis site (retroactive interference; RI). The speed-accuracy tradeoff procedure was used to measure the time course of VPE processing. The location of the interfering material affected VPE comprehension accuracy: RI conditions engendered lower accuracy than PI conditions. Crucially, location did not affect the speed of processing VPE, which is inconsistent with both forward and backward search mechanisms. The observed time-course profiles are consistent with the hypothesis that VPE antecedents are retrieved via a cue-dependent direct-access operation. (Contains 4 tables, 3 figures, and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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