Sentence examples for online comprehension from inspiring English sources

Psycholinguistic theorising has long been shaped by the assumption that the processing system endeavours to minimise structures/relations during online comprehension.

Syntactic complexity effects detected in the hemodynamic responses to auditory sentence presentation will reflect online comprehension processes, although a component of reanalysis may also be present.

Our results are in keeping with online comprehension measures which typically do not support age-related deficits in either semantic or syntactic aspects of sentence processing (e.g., Light et al. 1991; Waters and Caplan 2001, 2005).

When presented with a difficult sentence, a subject may rethink the sentence as it is held in working memory over several seconds, and this process may involve different mechanisms than normal online comprehension.

Thus, the design of this experiment can identify dissociable effects of syntactic complexity at the stages of online comprehension and post hoc reanalysis, testing whether they rely on the same brain areas.

As students complete their assignments online, their comprehension is evaluated in short quizzes and longer tests online.

The aim was to investigate the long discussed relationship between prosody and syntax in online speech comprehension to reveal direct evidence about whether the two information types are interactive or independent from each other.

In addition, though specific contextual cues that are indicative of a forthcoming non-ideal Actor may reduce this negativity in comparison to when such cues are not available, they nevertheless do not nullify it, suggesting that animacy-based predictions are stronger than contextual cues in online language comprehension.

Rather, as we show on the basis of a number of studies using event-related brain potentials (ERPs), the degree of meaning derived from a given sentence fragment (form) during online sentence comprehension differs as a function of the morphological informativeness of the sentential arguments.

Thus syllable boundaries can only be predicted after a certain delay, which makes it impractical for online speech comprehension as occurring in the human brain.

The word-monitoring task minimizes memory requirements by making the target word available throughout the trial and measuring comprehension online.