PMID- 8366478
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19931007
LR  - 20220310
IS  - 0090-6905 (Print)
IS  - 0090-6905 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 2
DP  - 1993 Mar
TI  - On the temporal course of gap-filling during comprehension of verbal passives.
PG  - 273-86
AB  - The work presented in this paper examines the time course of antecedent 
      reactivation following movement gaps found in passive sentences. Using a 
      cross-modal lexical priming technique, (re)activation of the subject noun phrase 
      (NP) was examined at various critical points following the verb (near the posited 
      gap) for verbal passive sentences and for active (control) sentences. Subjects 
      made lexical decisions to visual targets that were presented at three locations 
      during auditory sentence comprehension: immediately after the matrix verb, 500 
      msec after the verb, or 1000 msec after the verb. Responses to targets related to 
      the subject NP were faster than those to controls during passive sentences (gap 
      sentences), but not during active sentences (no-gap sentences), thus indicating 
      that reactivation of the matrix subject did occur in the passive cases. 
      Furthermore, the magnitude of the priming increased with distance and time from 
      the verb, going from a nonsignificant trend at the verb to a highly significant 
      effect at 1000 msec following the verb. These results are discussed in terms of 
      both formal and processing models of language.
FAU - Osterhout, L
AU  - Osterhout L
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
FAU - Swinney, D A
AU  - Swinney DA
LA  - eng
GR  - NIDCD DC01947/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - J Psycholinguist Res
JT  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JID - 0333506
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cognition
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - *Language Tests
MH  - Linguistics
MH  - Male
MH  - Semantics
EDAT- 1993/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1993/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1993/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1993/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1993/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1993/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/BF01067834 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Psycholinguist Res. 1993 Mar;22(2):273-86. doi: 10.1007/BF01067834.