Browsing by Author "Schlenter, Judith"

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    • Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic 

      Dolscheid, Sarah; Schlenter, Judith; Penke, Martina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-17)
      Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function assignment, effects of animacy on conjoined noun phrases (e.g., fish and shoe vs. shoe and fish) have yielded inconsistent results. In the present study, we tested the ...

    • Prediction in bilingual sentence processing: How prediction differs in a later learned language from a first language 

      Schlenter, Judith (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-27)
      This review provides an update on what we know about differences in prediction in a first and second language after several years of extensive research. It shows when L1/L2 differences are most likely to occur and provides an explanation as to why they occur. For example, L2 speakers may capitalize more on semantic information for prediction than L1 speakers, or possibly they do not make predictions ...