Matthew J Traxler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1569398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Traxler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Traxler |
| SIGNATURE | TRAXLER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3441-8280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals
Referential processing relies on similar cognitive functions across languages – in particular, working memory. However, this has only been investigated in spoken languages with highly similar referential systems. In contrast to spoken languages, American Sign Language (ASL) uses a spatial referential system. It is unknown whether the referential system of ASL (L1) impacts referential processing in English (L2). This cross-language impact may be o…
Bilinguals on the garden-path
Syntactic parsing plays a central role in the interpretation of sentences, but it is unclear to what extent non-native speakers can deploy native-like grammatical knowledge during online comprehension. The current eye-tracking study investigated how Chinese–English bilinguals and native English speakers respond to syntactic category and subcategorization information while reading sentences with object-subject ambiguities. We also obtained measure…
Zooming in on zooming out
The Role of the Putative Mirror Neuron System in Language Comprehension
Single‐cell recording in macaque monkeys has uncovered mirror neurons , which respond both when a monkey observes a transitive action (an action involving an actor and an object), carries out that transitive action, or hears a sound associated with that action. Mirror neurons have been proposed to provide the neural basis for a variety of language functions, including the understanding of expressions referring to actions and the coordination of m…
What’s Special About Human Language? The Contents of the “Narrow Language Faculty” Revisited
In this review, we re‐evaluate the recursion‐only hypothesis, advocated by Fitch, Hauser and Chomsky ( Fitch et al. 2005 ; Hauser et al. 2002 ). According to the recursion‐only hypothesis, the property that distinguishes human language from animal communication systems is recursion, which refers to the potentially infinite embedding of one linguistic representation within another of the same type. This hypothesis predicts (1) that non‐human prima…
Syntactic Priming Effects in Comprehension
Syntactic priming occurs when processing of a target sentence is facilitated following processing of a prime sentence that has the same syntactic structure (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology , 18. 355–387). Syntactic priming has been widely investigated in production (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology , 18. 355–387; Bock and Griffin, 2000 General. 129(2). 177–192; Cleland and Pickering, 2003. Journal of Memory and Language , 49. 214–230; Cleland and …
A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Analysis of Working Memory and Implicit Prosody in the Resolution of Adjunct Attachment Ambiguity
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as does the late closure principle (Frazier, On comprehending sentences: Syntactic parsing strategies. …
Discourse Impairments Following Right Hemisphere Brain Damage
Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech. Nonetheless, subtle language comprehension deficits can occur following unilateral RHD. In this article, we review the empirical record on discourse function following right hemisphere damage, as well as relevant work on non‐brain damaged individuals that focuses on right hemisphere fun…
Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
Plausibility and Verb Subcategorization in Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences
Processing Subject and Object Relative Clauses
Priming in Sentence Processing
Functional Projections of Predicates
This paper reports the results of six experiments involving an online selfpaced reading task that examine the processing of coordinate small clause predicate phrases versus coordinated argument NPs. The results have particular significance for the analysis of small clause complement has an Agr projection associated with it. An adequate explanation of the processing of small claue coordination is shown to motivate a new parsing principle, Coordina…
Plausibility and the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies
A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Analysis of Working Memory and Implicit Prosody in the Resolution of Adjunct Attachment Ambiguity
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as does the late closure principle (Frazier, On comprehending sentences: Syntactic parsing strategies. …
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
Priming in Sentence Processing
What’s Special About Human Language? The Contents of the “Narrow Language Faculty” Revisited
In this review, we re‐evaluate the recursion‐only hypothesis, advocated by Fitch, Hauser and Chomsky ( Fitch et al. 2005 ; Hauser et al. 2002 ). According to the recursion‐only hypothesis, the property that distinguishes human language from animal communication systems is recursion, which refers to the potentially infinite embedding of one linguistic representation within another of the same type. This hypothesis predicts (1) that non‐human prima…
Functional Projections of Predicates
This paper reports the results of six experiments involving an online selfpaced reading task that examine the processing of coordinate small clause predicate phrases versus coordinated argument NPs. The results have particular significance for the analysis of small clause complement has an Agr projection associated with it. An adequate explanation of the processing of small claue coordination is shown to motivate a new parsing principle, Coordina…
Plausibility and the Processing of Unbounded Dependencies
Priming in Sentence Processing
Functional Projections of Predicates
This paper reports the results of six experiments involving an online selfpaced reading task that examine the processing of coordinate small clause predicate phrases versus coordinated argument NPs. The results have particular significance for the analysis of small clause complement has an Agr projection associated with it. An adequate explanation of the processing of small claue coordination is shown to motivate a new parsing principle, Coordina…
Processing Subject and Object Relative Clauses
Plausibility and Verb Subcategorization in Temporarily Ambiguous Sentences
Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
Discourse Impairments Following Right Hemisphere Brain Damage
Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech. Nonetheless, subtle language comprehension deficits can occur following unilateral RHD. In this article, we review the empirical record on discourse function following right hemisphere damage, as well as relevant work on non‐brain damaged individuals that focuses on right hemisphere fun…
A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Analysis of Working Memory and Implicit Prosody in the Resolution of Adjunct Attachment Ambiguity
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as does the late closure principle (Frazier, On comprehending sentences: Syntactic parsing strategies. …
Syntactic Priming Effects in Comprehension
Syntactic priming occurs when processing of a target sentence is facilitated following processing of a prime sentence that has the same syntactic structure (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology , 18. 355–387). Syntactic priming has been widely investigated in production (Bock, 1986 Cognitive Psychology , 18. 355–387; Bock and Griffin, 2000 General. 129(2). 177–192; Cleland and Pickering, 2003. Journal of Memory and Language , 49. 214–230; Cleland and …
What’s Special About Human Language? The Contents of the “Narrow Language Faculty” Revisited
In this review, we re‐evaluate the recursion‐only hypothesis, advocated by Fitch, Hauser and Chomsky ( Fitch et al. 2005 ; Hauser et al. 2002 ). According to the recursion‐only hypothesis, the property that distinguishes human language from animal communication systems is recursion, which refers to the potentially infinite embedding of one linguistic representation within another of the same type. This hypothesis predicts (1) that non‐human prima…
The Role of the Putative Mirror Neuron System in Language Comprehension
Single‐cell recording in macaque monkeys has uncovered mirror neurons , which respond both when a monkey observes a transitive action (an action involving an actor and an object), carries out that transitive action, or hears a sound associated with that action. Mirror neurons have been proposed to provide the neural basis for a variety of language functions, including the understanding of expressions referring to actions and the coordination of m…
Zooming in on zooming out
Bilinguals on the garden-path
Syntactic parsing plays a central role in the interpretation of sentences, but it is unclear to what extent non-native speakers can deploy native-like grammatical knowledge during online comprehension. The current eye-tracking study investigated how Chinese–English bilinguals and native English speakers respond to syntactic category and subcategorization information while reading sentences with object-subject ambiguities. We also obtained measure…
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals
Referential processing relies on similar cognitive functions across languages – in particular, working memory. However, this has only been investigated in spoken languages with highly similar referential systems. In contrast to spoken languages, American Sign Language (ASL) uses a spatial referential system. It is unknown whether the referential system of ASL (L1) impacts referential processing in English (L2). This cross-language impact may be o…
Psychology (14 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (12 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Cognition (6 works)