PMID- 8789365
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19961017
LR  - 20220317
IS  - 0090-6905 (Print)
IS  - 0090-6905 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 1
DP  - 1996 Jan
TI  - Coreference processing and levels of analysis in object-relative constructions; 
      demonstration of antecedent reactivation with the cross-modal priming paradigm.
PG  - 5-24
AB  - This paper is concerned with two related issues in sentence processing--one 
      methodological and one theoretical. Methodologically, it provides an unconfounded 
      test of the ability of the cross-modal lexical priming task, when used 
      appropriately, to provide detailed evidence about the time-course of antecedent 
      reactivation during sentence processing. Theoretically, it provides a study of 
      the nature of the representation that is examined when a reference-seeking 
      element is linked to its antecedent during the processing of object-relative 
      clause constructions. In these studies, subjects heard sentences which contained 
      a lexical ambiguity placed in a strong biasing context. In one study this 
      ambiguous word was the "moved" or "fronted" object of the verb in an 
      object-relative construction. A cross-modal lexical priming (CMLP) naming task 
      was used to determine whether one or more of the meanings of the ambiguity are 
      activated at three temporally distinct points during the sentence: (1) 
      immediately after the lexical ambiguity (Study 1); (2) a later point that was 700 
      milliseconds before the offset of the main verb (Study 2); (3) immediately after 
      this main verb (at the gap in this filler-gap construction) (Study 2). The probes 
      in the CMLP task were controlled for potential confounds. The results demonstrate 
      the following: At Test Point 1, all meanings of the ambiguity were activated; at 
      Test Point 2, neither meaning of the ambiguity was (still) activated; at Test 
      Point 3, only a single (context-relevant) meaning of the ambiguity was 
      reactivated. It is concluded that an underlying (deep; non-surface-level) 
      memorial representation of the sentence is examined during the process of linking 
      an antecedent to a structural position requiring a referent, and that the CMLP 
      task provides an unbiased measure of this reactivation. Further, it is concluded 
      that this effect cannot be accounted for under a "compound cue" (Ratcliff & 
      McKoon, 1994) explanation.
FAU - Love, T
AU  - Love T
AD  - Department of Psychology, UCSD, La Jolla 92093, USA.
FAU - Swinney, D
AU  - Swinney D
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 DC00494/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - T32 DC 00041/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
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  - Humans
MH  - Language
MH  - Reaction Time
MH  - Semantics
MH  - *Vocabulary
EDAT- 1996/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 1996/01/01 00:01
CRDT- 1996/01/01 00:00
PHST- 1996/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/01/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/BF01708418 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Psycholinguist Res. 1996 Jan;25(1):5-24. doi: 10.1007/BF01708418.