The role of syntactic context in word recognition |
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Authors: | George O Goodman James L McClelland Raymond W Gibbs |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, C-009, University of California, San Diego, 92093, La Jolla, California
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Abstract: | This study examines the role of syntactic information in word recognition. Subjects made a word-nonword decision regarding a target string that was preceded by a syntactically appropriate word, a semantically related word, or an unrelated word. In Experiment 1, with syntactic and semantic trials assigned to separate blocks, syntactically and semantically appropriate context significantly reduced lexical decision for subsequent target words, compared with unrelated contexts. In Experiment 2, the syntactically and semantically primed trials were either blocked separately or mixed within the same block. Significant syntactic and semantic effects were both observed in the blocked condition, but only the semantic effect was obtained in the mixed condition |
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