George, Gerret Evan
(2011)
The Conceptualization of Grammatical Number.
Undergraduate Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
The current study investigated the nature of the mental representation of grammatical number. We used methodology from Stanfield and Zwaan (2001) in an attempt to distinguish amodal from perceptual systems. Participants read a sentence that ended with either a singular or plural noun. After reading the sentence, they viewed a picture that matched or mismatched the number of the sentence final-noun. They then judged whether the referent in the picture had been in the sentence. Participants were slower when matching a singular lexical stimulus (e.g. apple) to a plural graphic stimulus (See Figure 2) compared to the other three conditions. The results did not follow the pattern found by Stanfield & Zwaan (2001). The results are more consistent with logical entailment.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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Status: |
Unpublished |
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Date: |
3 June 2011 |
Date Type: |
Completion |
Defense Date: |
8 April 2011 |
Approval Date: |
3 June 2011 |
Submission Date: |
22 April 2011 |
Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Psychology David C. Frederick Honors College |
Degree: |
BPhil - Bachelor of Philosophy |
Thesis Type: |
Undergraduate Thesis |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
amodal; embodied cognition; psycholinguistics; sentence processing |
Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-04222011-034812/, etd-04222011-034812 |
Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 19:41 |
Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:42 |
URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/7534 |
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