TY - JOUR
T1 - Word-monitoring tasks interact with levels of representation during speech comprehension
AU - Townsend, David J.
AU - Hoover, Michael
AU - Bever, Thomas G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by BNS-8120463 from the National Science Foundation to Montclair State University, and by a Distinguished Scholar Award from Montclair State University. Requests for reprints should be sent to David J. Townsend. 1 Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043. 2 Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, 3700 McTavish, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y2 Canada. 3Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Researchers frequently use data from monitoring tasks to argue that constraints on meaning facilitate lower-level processes. An alternate hypothesis is that the processing level that a monitoring task requires interacts with discourse-level processing. Subjects monitored spoken sentences for a synonym (semantic match), a nonsense word (phonological match), or a rhyme (phonologically and semantically constrained matching). The critical targets appeared at the beginning of the final clause in two-clause sentences that began with if, which signals a semantic analysis at the discourse level, or with though, which maintains a surface representation. Synonym-monitoring times were faster for if than for though, nonsense word-monitoring times were faster for though than for if, and rhyme-monitoring times did not differ for if and though. The results show that conjunctions influence how listeners allocate attention to semantic versus phonological information, implying that listeners form these kinds of information independently.
AB - Researchers frequently use data from monitoring tasks to argue that constraints on meaning facilitate lower-level processes. An alternate hypothesis is that the processing level that a monitoring task requires interacts with discourse-level processing. Subjects monitored spoken sentences for a synonym (semantic match), a nonsense word (phonological match), or a rhyme (phonologically and semantically constrained matching). The critical targets appeared at the beginning of the final clause in two-clause sentences that began with if, which signals a semantic analysis at the discourse level, or with though, which maintains a surface representation. Synonym-monitoring times were faster for if than for though, nonsense word-monitoring times were faster for though than for if, and rhyme-monitoring times did not differ for if and though. The results show that conjunctions influence how listeners allocate attention to semantic versus phonological information, implying that listeners form these kinds of information independently.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1005148104885
DO - 10.1023/A:1005148104885
M3 - Article
C2 - 10937365
AN - SCOPUS:0034183964
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 29
SP - 265
EP - 274
JO - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JF - Journal of psycholinguistic research
IS - 3
ER -