Scharp, Victoria
(2016)
Temporal Processing of Ongoing Event Representations.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Time cues are ubiquitous in language and the ability to interpret them is essential for understanding events during discourse comprehension. Temporal markers that signal ongoing versus completed events, like the progressive and simple past tense, prompt distinct mental event representations. However, the detailed properties of ongoing event representations remain unexplored. Drawing from both the simulation and semantic association approaches to knowledge representation, this study examines the novel prediction that ongoing events engender incremental discourse representation updating processes. Experimental sentences cued either early or late phases of an ongoing event (e.g. Alice had recently started/almost finished baking a cake). Targets in a post-sentential lexical decision task were strongly associated with either early or late event phases (e.g. EGGS/AROMA). Facilitation priming was predicted for congruent sentence-target pairs, however, priming was found for the early event phase exclusively. The results have implications for models of knowledge representation, theories of semantic priming, and discourse model updating.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Scharp, Victoria | vls4@pitt.edu | VLS4 | |
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| Date: |
13 September 2016 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
15 July 2016 |
| Approval Date: |
13 September 2016 |
| Submission Date: |
28 July 2016 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
175 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences > Communication Science and Disorders |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
temporal processing, event processing, language comprehension |
| Date Deposited: |
13 Sep 2016 14:34 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 14:35 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29038 |
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