TY - JOUR
T1 - Judging the veracity of ambiguous sentences
AU - Carey, Peter W.
AU - Mehler, Jacques
AU - Bever, Thomas G.
N1 - Funding Information:
i This study was supported by N.I.H. Grant MH 14709 01 to Jacques Mehler; by ARPA Grant SD-187 and N.I.H. Grant I PO1 GM 16735 01 to Rockefeller University; and by N.I.H. Grant NB HD 08656 01 to Peter W. Carey.
PY - 1970/4
Y1 - 1970/4
N2 - Eighty Ss saw a picture, heard a sentence, and judged the sentence true or false with respect to the picture. After five unambiguous sentences of a single syntactic structure, and ambiguous sentence was presented. Results for the ambiguous sentence revealed (a) that the ambiguity was most often perceived when both interpretations of the sentence were true with respect to the picture, (b) that response latencies were shortest when both interpretations were false, (c) that Ss who claimed to have seen the ambiguity before responding had longer latencies than those who claimed not to have seen the ambiguity, and (d) that these differences in processing were clear only in Ss' responses to their first ambiguous sentence. A model for the pragmatic and syntactic processes is considered.
AB - Eighty Ss saw a picture, heard a sentence, and judged the sentence true or false with respect to the picture. After five unambiguous sentences of a single syntactic structure, and ambiguous sentence was presented. Results for the ambiguous sentence revealed (a) that the ambiguity was most often perceived when both interpretations of the sentence were true with respect to the picture, (b) that response latencies were shortest when both interpretations were false, (c) that Ss who claimed to have seen the ambiguity before responding had longer latencies than those who claimed not to have seen the ambiguity, and (d) that these differences in processing were clear only in Ss' responses to their first ambiguous sentence. A model for the pragmatic and syntactic processes is considered.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-5371(70)80058-5
DO - 10.1016/S0022-5371(70)80058-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011326142
SN - 0022-5371
VL - 9
SP - 243
EP - 254
JO - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
JF - Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
IS - 2
ER -