Abstract
According to the structural model of reading (A. Koriat & S. N. Greenberg, 1994), the extraction of structure leads the way to the analysis of meaning. Consistent with this model, previous letter-detection studies have documented an inordinately high rate of letter omissions in function morphemes, suggesting that the cognitive representation of function morphemes is diminished once they have been utilized to set phrase structure. The present study revealed a new and complementary enhancement effect: Letter detection in content morphemes that immediately followed functors was superior to that of content morphemes positioned elsewhere in the text. Together these effects suggest an on-line figure-ground representation of text in which structural elements recede as semantic elements are pushed to the foreground.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1184-1195 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language