Debra A Titone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1203543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra A Titone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra A |
| FAMILY NAME | Titone |
| SIGNATURE | TITONE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism
In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth – humans communicate using language to accomplish social goals. In this Keynote, we urge cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to more fully embrace sociolinguistic and sociocultural experiences as part of their theoretical and empirical purview. To this end, we…
Less Direct, More Analytical
Idioms (e.g., break the ice, spill the beans) are ubiquitous multiword units that are often semantically non-compositional. Psycholinguistic data suggests that L1 readers process idioms in a hybrid fashion, with early comprehension facilitated by direct retrieval, and later comprehension inhibited by factors promoting compositional parsing (e.g., semantic decomposability). In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the role of direct retrie…
The Quest for Signals in Noise
Increasing evidence suggests that bilingualism does not, in itself, result in a particular pattern of response, revealing instead a complex and multidimensional construct that is shaped by evolutionary and ecological sources of variability. Despite growing recognition of the need for a richer characterization of bilingual speakers and of the different contexts of language use, we understand relatively little about the boundary conditions of putat…
Sensorimotor and linguistic information attenuate emotional word processing benefits
Recent studies have reported that emotional words are processed faster than neutral words, though emotional benefits may not depend solely on words' emotionality. Drawing on an embodied approach to representation, we examined interactions between emotional, sensorimotor, and linguistic sources of information for target words embedded in sentential contexts. Using eye-movement measures for 43 native English speakers, we observed emotional benefits…
Age-Related Impairments in the Revision of Syntactic Misanalyses
Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) task, in which sentences were presented in a segment-by-segment self-paced fashion. Experiment 2 examined age-related differences using a sentence recall task, in which sentences were presented in their entirety. Sentence…
On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions
Descriptive Norms for 171 Idiomatic Expressions
Descriptive norms for 171 idiomatic expressions rated by 226 subjects on the dimensions of familiarity, compositionality, predictability, and literality are reported. Different theoretical positions concerning the comprehension of idioms are discussed, and the relevance of each dimension to idiom processing is described. The dimension of predictability correlated significantly with alternative ratings of familiarity. Literality negatively correla…
On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions
The Quest for Signals in Noise
Increasing evidence suggests that bilingualism does not, in itself, result in a particular pattern of response, revealing instead a complex and multidimensional construct that is shaped by evolutionary and ecological sources of variability. Despite growing recognition of the need for a richer characterization of bilingual speakers and of the different contexts of language use, we understand relatively little about the boundary conditions of putat…
Less Direct, More Analytical
Idioms (e.g., break the ice, spill the beans) are ubiquitous multiword units that are often semantically non-compositional. Psycholinguistic data suggests that L1 readers process idioms in a hybrid fashion, with early comprehension facilitated by direct retrieval, and later comprehension inhibited by factors promoting compositional parsing (e.g., semantic decomposability). In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the role of direct retrie…
Age-Related Impairments in the Revision of Syntactic Misanalyses
Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) task, in which sentences were presented in a segment-by-segment self-paced fashion. Experiment 2 examined age-related differences using a sentence recall task, in which sentences were presented in their entirety. Sentence…
Descriptive Norms for 171 Idiomatic Expressions
Descriptive norms for 171 idiomatic expressions rated by 226 subjects on the dimensions of familiarity, compositionality, predictability, and literality are reported. Different theoretical positions concerning the comprehension of idioms are discussed, and the relevance of each dimension to idiom processing is described. The dimension of predictability correlated significantly with alternative ratings of familiarity. Literality negatively correla…
On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions
Age-Related Impairments in the Revision of Syntactic Misanalyses
Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) task, in which sentences were presented in a segment-by-segment self-paced fashion. Experiment 2 examined age-related differences using a sentence recall task, in which sentences were presented in their entirety. Sentence…
Sensorimotor and linguistic information attenuate emotional word processing benefits
Recent studies have reported that emotional words are processed faster than neutral words, though emotional benefits may not depend solely on words' emotionality. Drawing on an embodied approach to representation, we examined interactions between emotional, sensorimotor, and linguistic sources of information for target words embedded in sentential contexts. Using eye-movement measures for 43 native English speakers, we observed emotional benefits…
The Quest for Signals in Noise
Increasing evidence suggests that bilingualism does not, in itself, result in a particular pattern of response, revealing instead a complex and multidimensional construct that is shaped by evolutionary and ecological sources of variability. Despite growing recognition of the need for a richer characterization of bilingual speakers and of the different contexts of language use, we understand relatively little about the boundary conditions of putat…
Less Direct, More Analytical
Idioms (e.g., break the ice, spill the beans) are ubiquitous multiword units that are often semantically non-compositional. Psycholinguistic data suggests that L1 readers process idioms in a hybrid fashion, with early comprehension facilitated by direct retrieval, and later comprehension inhibited by factors promoting compositional parsing (e.g., semantic decomposability). In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated the role of direct retrie…
Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism
In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth – humans communicate using language to accomplish social goals. In this Keynote, we urge cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to more fully embrace sociolinguistic and sociocultural experiences as part of their theoretical and empirical purview. To this end, we…
Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works)