PSY374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Parsing
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Parsing is the process of assigning elements of surface structure to linguistic categories. We ordinarily remember the gist of a sentence and quickly forget its surface form. Working memory and comprehension working memory capacity is also related to individual differences in comprehension performance less skilled comprehenders were less efficient in rejecting the inappropriate meanings of ambiguous words. mechanism of suppression is a component of general comprehension skills less skilled comprehenders are less efficient in suppressing irrelevant info (cid:224) associated w. central executive system of working memory individuals with smaller working memories were more likely to show garden path effects in sentences. Time course of retention retention interval the time b/w the presentation and the test study: get students to listen to a tape recorded passage, stop at various interval and test the participants on a previously heard sentence, vary two factors:
