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Description:: Phonotactic patterns are generalizations that govern the order of consonants and vowels, within words and syllables. Certain second-order phonotactic patterns—those that relate multiple sounds within a syllable, such as “if the vowel is [ɪ], then [s] can only appear at the end of the syllable”—require a period of sleep-based consolidation...
Keyword:: speech production, phonotactics, adult language learning, pattern learning, motor learning, and phonology
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Language, and Linguistics
Creator:: Mirea, Nicole Irene
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16373 and etdadmin_upload_947262

Description:: Sentence comprehension requires both syntactic prediction and working memory processes. Evidence suggests that both are impaired in agrammatic aphasia, and can independently contribute to comprehension breakdowns, but the relationship between them, especially during real-time sentence comprehension remains unclear. Two EEG studies investigated on-line processing of sentences with non-local long-distance dependencies...
Keyword:: active dependency formation, working memory, syntactic prediction, Aphasia, Agrammatic comprehension, and integration deficits
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Speech therapy, and Linguistics
Creator:: Hsu, Chien-Ju
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15891 and etdadmin_upload_870367

Description:: This dissertation provides evidence that reading is best explained as rational gathering of visual information to identify words efficiently. Although empirical evidence from human reading research suggests a close link between eye movements and cognitive process, it is not clear how readers decide when and where to move their eyes...
Keyword:: Eye movements, Rational analysis, Word identification, and Reading
Subject:: Cognitive psychology and Linguistics
Creator:: Duan, Yunyan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15556 and etdadmin_upload_818069

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