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  • A Developmental Perspective on Processing Semantic Context: Preliminary Evidence from Sentential Auditory Word Repetition in School-Aged Children

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    Mahler, NA
    Chenery, HJ
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    Mahler, Nicole A.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    The current investigation examined the developmental changes involved in processing semantic context in auditorily presented sentences, as well as underlying attentional and suppression mechanisms. Thirty-nine typically developing school-aged children aged 6;0–14;0 years participated in the current cross-sectional sentential auditory word repetition study. Component processes involved in auditory word recognition were examined and their respective developmental trajectories systematically delineated. Experimental manipulations included semantic congruity (congruous, incongruous), sentence constraint (high, low), cloze ...
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    The current investigation examined the developmental changes involved in processing semantic context in auditorily presented sentences, as well as underlying attentional and suppression mechanisms. Thirty-nine typically developing school-aged children aged 6;0–14;0 years participated in the current cross-sectional sentential auditory word repetition study. Component processes involved in auditory word recognition were examined and their respective developmental trajectories systematically delineated. Experimental manipulations included semantic congruity (congruous, incongruous), sentence constraint (high, low), cloze probability (high, low), and processing mode. High sentence constraints elicited top-down pre-potency type effects, which resulted in active suppression of anticipated cloze words and longer naming latencies of perceived cloze words when violated with conflicting bottom-up information. In addition, developmental changes in component processes reflected underlying changes in attention, with evidence that suppression mechanisms remained relatively constant with age. Findings are interpreted in line with the Trace (McClelland and Elman in Cogn Psychol 18(1):1–86, 1986) model of auditory word recognition.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
    Volume
    48
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9591-6
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Springer. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp 81–105. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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    Psychology
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383486
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