Extensive evidence shows that listeners use global knowledge to generate predictions of upcoming sentences themes; however,
there is less investigation on how local context that semantically conflicts with long-standing global knowledge is integrated and applied
in real-time sentence comprehension. Three studies used the visual world paradigm to study this question. Experiment 1 replicated previous
findings that listeners typically rely on global knowledge to anticipate sentence themes. Experiment 2 suggests that adult listeners
rapidly increase the weight of combinatorial evidence from local context and decrease the weight of global knowledge to anticipate the
appropriate sentence theme. Experiment 3 shows that 5-8 year-old children do not overcome semantic conflict in time to generate
predictions of the sentence theme. These results indicate that in the presence of semantic conflict, adult comprehenders rapidly learned
to favor local context over global knowledge, but this ability appears to emerge after a child turns 8 years-old. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the Master of
Science. / Fall Semester 2016. / November 14, 2016. / Includes bibliographical references. / Michael Kaschak, Professor Co-Directing Thesis; Arielle Borovsky, Professor Co-Directing Thesis;
Colleen Kelley, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_405674 |
| Contributors | Yazbec, Angele (authoraut), Kaschak, Michael P. (professor co-directing thesis), Borovsky, Arielle (professor co-directing thesis), Kelley, Colleen M. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of Psychology (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (65 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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