Found inside – Page 152Clearly a non - word can never form a plausible sentence , so this strategy will never lead to an incorrect response . The contextually probable words in the sentences will tend to produce sentences which are more plausible than those ... Found inside – Page 920The methodology is delayed sentence matching, meaning that participants read a ... The stimuli cross plausibility (plausible versus moderately implausible) ... Found inside – Page 63The results show that for preferably transitive verbs, there was an effect of plausibility with both Early and Late Gap sentences. Found inside – Page 147Plausibility judgment works best when the stimuli are sentences. Participants indicate after each sentence whether or not an event is likely to occur in the ... Found inside – Page 29Misleading Plausibility of CANONICAL SENTENCE SCHEMAS At first sight, the idea that children use canonical sentence schemas to assign default argument ... Found inside – Page 157Four types of sentences varying in plausibility were constructed : ( 1 ) plausible and plausibly reversible sentences , ( 2 ) implausible but plausibly ... Found insideThe sentences were matched in terms of length and did not vary across ... to judge the semantic plausibility and recall the final words of each sentence. Found inside – Page 76For thus purpose filler sentences were included in which the agent and recipient could be exchanged without affecting plausibility (e.g., “The boy that ... Found inside – Page 199Sentences with implausible direct objects were associated with greater changes ... with no interaction between plausibility and sentence type, F(l,33) < 1. Found inside... Hyönä, and Majewski (2007) manipulated plausibility in sentences with compound ... In the implausible version of the sentence, the head noun cafeteria ... Found inside – Page 23Each sentence stem ended with the verb, followed by “. ... Thus, the light and non-light sentences were matched on plausibility. In the ERP experiment, ... Found insideIn the plausibility study that I conducted to assess the semantic ... They were asked to read all sentences carefully and to rate each sentence on a scale ... Found inside – Page 397They presented RSVP sentences of 8 to 14 words and required subjects to judge the plausibility of each sentence before writing it down. Found inside – Page 150... the hearer / reader must invent a meaning which is plausible for the sentence . Plausibility depends on a number of factors : the meaning must be ... Found inside – Page 237Thus, researchers typically only analyze data from sentences for which ... they were instructed to judge only the semantic plausibility of the sentences. Found inside – Page 156The conditional part is a list of properties of the object and of its situation in the sentence . The former kind of prop erty is ... These conditions are used to check the plausibility of a sentence with respect to the located object . For example , the ... Found inside – Page 47This criterion proposes to calculate the plausibility of a sentence φ based on all its proofs before being forwarded. This calculation should return an ... Found inside – Page 94Each text consisted of a lead-in and a critical sentence. Plausibility was manipulated in the critical sentences and used as a diagnostic for dependency ... Found inside – Page 998plausibility (M=7.8), followed as predicted by attributal analysis ... being made affects the plausibility of that a the sentence distributional pair. Found inside – Page 4... or plausible purpose of a sentence agents who carry out the sentence must ... by a judge who believes it will plausibility of the quite dissuade other ... Found inside – Page 141This study was an extension of the plausibility manipulation conducted by Trueswell et al. in press) and examined the extent to which ambiguity effects in ... The Junius Manuscript Found inside – Page 217The target sentences with proper nouns make sense when the noun is ... Thus a plausibility effect should be seen for the target sentences with pronouns . Found inside – Page 106In addition, subject- plausibility-matched-sentences took more time to read than object-plausibility- matched sentences [F1(1, 23) = 5.60, p < .05; F2(1, ... Found inside – Page 62Therefore s-inconsistent 'aware'-sentences with visual objects (like 2b) will be deemed less plausible than their s-consistent counterparts (like 1b), ... Found inside – Page 466... cannot neutralize difficulty with temporarily ambiguous sentences, ... OF PLAUSIBILITY The use of semantic plausibility information during sentence ... Found inside – Page 111Williams, Möbius, and Kim (2001) focused on the use of plausibility information in L2 sentence processing by learners of English from Chinese, Korean, ... Found inside – Page 350That is, it was always possible to complete the sentence in such a way that the Wh-phrase would be a plausible filler for some later gap-position (e.g., ... Found inside – Page 116When such plausibility exists, the sentence is classified as a reversible passive. In other passive sentences, the reversibility of roles is less plausible ... Found inside... and press a button when they felt the sentence was no longer plausible. ... and NNS adopted a filler-driven strategy and were sensitive to plausibility, ... Found inside – Page 32sentences were added to form two lists of 110 sentences . The average plausibility ratings are shown in Table 1 , with a rating of 1 being plausible and 5 ... Found inside – Page 72Effectively therefore the experiment is circular with regard to plausibility : an experiment in which subjects are instructed to look out for plausibility ... Found inside – Page 108One straightforward way to assess this is to collect plausibility ratings on simplex sentences (NP-VP) created from the ambiguous construction in each ... Found insidePlausibility can vary from the impossible to the merely unlikely, and can hinge on syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic violations. In the sentences such as ... Found inside – Page 67Sentences were rated on plausibility by twenty subjects , ten for each list . Subjects were all ... On the basis of these ratings , the 32 most reversible and plausible sentence sets were chosen to be used in the reading experiment . The versions ... Found inside – Page 102predisposition competes with the plausibility of the data presented. ... in a sentence or in groups of sentences, relate to each other (Lapata et al 1999). Found inside – Page 34Each item consists of both a context sentence ( biasing or neutral ) and the ... Concerning plausibility , the target sentence is equally plausible at the ... Found inside – Page 256... patients could successfully "map" between sentence constituents (e.g., ... of the nouns were reversed, the plausibility of the sentence would change. Found inside – Page 283Four conditions were generated by crossing two levels of Sentence Type ... violation ) with two levels of Plausibility ( plausible and implausible ) ; which ... Found inside – Page 234or to make plausibility judgments (i.e., “Is this sentence plausible given the story you read?”). Statements that should be judged as plausible fall into ... Found inside – Page 70One was a plausibility scale , comprising sentences of the form of ( 36b ) and ... Table 4.1 Plausibility and acceptability of passive sentence plausibility ... 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