The misinterpretation of noncanonical sentences.

By Fernanda Ferreira. Cognitive Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Behavior Matching in Multimodal Communication Is Synchronized (2012, background): “As the rest of communicative behavior operates on a principle of redundancy control, attenuating one signal when another carries similar information (Aylett & Turk, 2004; Bard & Anderson, 1994; Ferreira, 2003; Levy & Jaeger, 2007; Lieberman, 1963; Lindblom, 1990), it may be that few channels will sy”
Interference effects from grammatically unavailable constituents during sentence processing. (2007, background): “One possibility stems from the coordination between a “fast and frugal” heuristic system with the output of more rigorous syntactic algorithms, as recently proposed by a number of researchers (Bever & Townsend, 2001; Ferreira, 2003).”
How do forward models work? And why would you want them? (2013, neutral): “[aMJP] Ferreira, V. S. (2008) Ambiguity, accessibility, and a division of labor for commu-”
What do we mean by prediction in language comprehension? (2015, background): “…strong predictions, based on real-world knowledge or frequent structures, can sometimes lead to misinterpretations, particularly if they are compatible with certain features within bottom-up input – so-called good enough processing (Ferreira, 2003; for related discussion, see Kuperberg, 2007).”
Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment (2012, methodology): “The experiment was a partial replication and extension of an earlier study by Ferreira (2003), who tested psychology undergraduates and found that they were at ceiling on actives but had problems with passives, particularly implausible passives, where they chose the correct noun 74% of the time –…”
Communicative efficiency in language production: Optional case-marking in Japanese (2015, background): “Plausibility of intended interpretations has previously been found to affect comprehension speed (Garnsey et al., 1997) and accuracy (Ferreira, 2003).”
Continuity and shallow structures in language processing (2006, neutral): “Evidence for shallow parsing in the L1 (e.g., Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira, 2001; Ferreira, 2003; Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro, 2002; Sanford & Sturt, 2002) is compatible with processing models that assume that comprehension normally involves both the application of semantically…”
More individual differences in language attainment: How much do adult native speakers of English know about passives and quantifiers? (2010, neutral): “Crucially, constructing the true parse is slower and computationally more demanding, and thus may not be carried out in certain circumstances (see also Ferreira 2003).”
Neural mechanisms of language comprehension: challenges to syntax. (2007, background): “Indeed, there is evidence that, in syntactically ambiguous sentences and in non-canonical, syntactically complex sentences, these heuristic mechanisms can sometimes lead participants to come to final interpretations (‘good enough’ representations) that are not syntactically licensed (Caplan et al., ”
Processing negated sentences with contradictory predicates: Is a door that is not open mentally closed? (2006, background): “…of the negated state of affairs and a representation of the actual state of affairs, with both representations being in the focus of attention (cf. Ferreira, 2003, for evidence that dis-preferred readings of garden-path sentences are available even after the local ambiguity has been resolved).”
Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity: Evidence from metalinguistic awareness* (2009, background): “This tendency of comprehenders to disregard crucial semantic, syntactic or pragmatic information in the interpretation of written language has been recently explored in the language processing literature (Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell and Ferreira, 2001; Ferreira, Bailey and Ferraro, 2002; F”
The 'Good Enough' Approach to Language Comprehension (2007, background): “Ferreira (2003) had college students listen to sentences such as the dog was bitten by the man.”
The status of subject-object reanalyses in the language comprehension architecture (2008, background): “In Schlesewsky and Bornkessel (2006), we argued that this phenomenon can be explained in terms of goodenough representations (Ferreira, 2003; Ferreira, Christianson, & Hollingworth, 2001; Ferreira, Ferraro, & Bailey, 2002): when there is no information available at the point of disambiguation about ”
Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations (2013, neutral): “…representations that comprehenders build for such temporarily ambiguous sentences (Christianson, Hollingworth , Halliwell, & Ferreira, 2001; Christianson, Williams , Zacks, & Ferreira, 2006; Ferreira, 2003; Ferreira, Christianson, & Hollingworth, 2001; Swets, Desmet, Clifton, & Ferreira, 2008).”