Kathryn Bock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Bock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bock |
| SIGNATURE | BOCK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resolving Conflicts in Natural and Grammatical Gender Agreement
Structural priming across languages
The work that Helga Loebell and I reported in 2003 was aimed at a hypothesis that once seemed far-fetched. The hypothesis was that fluent bilinguals would exhibit structural persistence between the languages they speak. The research itself was actually conducted by Loebell 15 years earlier for her master's degree at Michigan State University. It was motivated in part by Bock's findings about the consequences of structural priming (1986, 1989), al…
Reaching agreement
How Much Correction of Syntactic Errors Are There, Anyway?'1
Speech errors are a traditional source of evidence about what speakers have to do, and what they occasionally fail to do, when they talk. In particular, the linguistic patterns in errors are theoretically informative for what they disclose about the language production process. Among the most notable regularities in errors is a strong tendency for the structures of sentences to remain stable when words move around. These stable structural propert…
Persistent structural priming from language comprehension to language production☆☆☆
Becoming syntactic.
Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) meaning-form mappings to derive syntactic representat…
The functions of structural priming
Structural priming refers to speakers' tendency to produce sentences with previously heard or produced syntactic structures. We review arguments and evidence for three common accounts of the functions of structural priming. One is that structural priming enhances fluency. Only some (reaction time and fluency measure) evidence supports this view. A second account argues that structural priming stems from implicit learning of how features of meanin…
Number Agreement in British and American English
British andAmerican speakers exhibit different verb number agreement patterns when sentence subjects have collective headnouns. From linguistic andpsycholinguistic accounts of how agreement is implemented, three alternative hypotheses can be derived to explain these differences. The hypotheses involve variations in the representation of notional number, disparities in how notional andgrammatical number are used, and inequalities in the grammatica…
Making Syntax of Sense
Grammatical agreement flags the parts of sentences that belong together regardless of whether the parts appear together. In English, the major agreement controller is the sentence subject, the major agreement targets are verbs and pronouns, and the major agreement category is number. The authors expand an account of number agreement whose tenets are that pronouns acquire number lexically, whereas verbs acquire it syntactically but with similar co…
Structural priming across languages
What the Eyes Say About Speaking
To study the time course of sentence formulation, we monitored the eye movements of speakers as they described simple events. The similarity between speakers' initial eye movements and those of observers performing a nonverbal event-comprehension task suggested that response-relevant information was rapidly extracted from scenes, allowing speakers to select grammatical subjects based on comprehended events rather than salience. When speaking exte…
The persistence of structural priming
Structural priming in language production is a tendency to recreate a recently uttered syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific lexical items, thematic roles, or word sequences. Two alternative proposals about the mechanism behind structural priming include (a) short-term activation from a memory representation of a priming structure and (b) longer term adaptation within the cognitive mechanisms fo…
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning
Agreement Processes in Sentence Comprehension
Word and World Order
Meaning, sound and syntax in english number agreement
Number is one of a small set of basic conceptual categories with relatively clear grammatical reflections and requirements. It must be called upon during fluent language production to create agreement between subjects and verbs, and the questions addressed in this paper concern how that is done. The number information that is used may be notional (whether the referent of the subject noun phrase is single or multiple), or lexical (whether the subc…
From conceptual roles to structural relations
The distinction between underlying and superficial linguistic structure is a staple of modern cognitive psychology. Despite increasingly diverse conceptions of syntactic relations in linguistic theory, the received view in psycholinguistics has remained one in which the entities assigned to underlying relations may assume different surface relations. The present article examines this view in the context of language production and reviews evidence…
Regulating mental energy
Broken agreement
A sketchbook of production problems
Framing sentences
Structure in language
Closed-class immanence in sentence production
Structural priming across languages
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning
Number Agreement in British and American English
British andAmerican speakers exhibit different verb number agreement patterns when sentence subjects have collective headnouns. From linguistic andpsycholinguistic accounts of how agreement is implemented, three alternative hypotheses can be derived to explain these differences. The hypotheses involve variations in the representation of notional number, disparities in how notional andgrammatical number are used, and inequalities in the grammatica…
A sketchbook of production problems
Reaching agreement
How Much Correction of Syntactic Errors Are There, Anyway?'1
Speech errors are a traditional source of evidence about what speakers have to do, and what they occasionally fail to do, when they talk. In particular, the linguistic patterns in errors are theoretically informative for what they disclose about the language production process. Among the most notable regularities in errors is a strong tendency for the structures of sentences to remain stable when words move around. These stable structural propert…
Resolving Conflicts in Natural and Grammatical Gender Agreement
Closed-class immanence in sentence production
Framing sentences
Structure in language
Broken agreement
A sketchbook of production problems
From conceptual roles to structural relations
The distinction between underlying and superficial linguistic structure is a staple of modern cognitive psychology. Despite increasingly diverse conceptions of syntactic relations in linguistic theory, the received view in psycholinguistics has remained one in which the entities assigned to underlying relations may assume different surface relations. The present article examines this view in the context of language production and reviews evidence…
Regulating mental energy
Word and World Order
Meaning, sound and syntax in english number agreement
Number is one of a small set of basic conceptual categories with relatively clear grammatical reflections and requirements. It must be called upon during fluent language production to create agreement between subjects and verbs, and the questions addressed in this paper concern how that is done. The number information that is used may be notional (whether the referent of the subject noun phrase is single or multiple), or lexical (whether the subc…
Agreement Processes in Sentence Comprehension
What the Eyes Say About Speaking
To study the time course of sentence formulation, we monitored the eye movements of speakers as they described simple events. The similarity between speakers' initial eye movements and those of observers performing a nonverbal event-comprehension task suggested that response-relevant information was rapidly extracted from scenes, allowing speakers to select grammatical subjects based on comprehended events rather than salience. When speaking exte…
The persistence of structural priming
Structural priming in language production is a tendency to recreate a recently uttered syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific lexical items, thematic roles, or word sequences. Two alternative proposals about the mechanism behind structural priming include (a) short-term activation from a memory representation of a priming structure and (b) longer term adaptation within the cognitive mechanisms fo…
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning
Structural priming across languages
Making Syntax of Sense
Grammatical agreement flags the parts of sentences that belong together regardless of whether the parts appear together. In English, the major agreement controller is the sentence subject, the major agreement targets are verbs and pronouns, and the major agreement category is number. The authors expand an account of number agreement whose tenets are that pronouns acquire number lexically, whereas verbs acquire it syntactically but with similar co…
Becoming syntactic.
Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) meaning-form mappings to derive syntactic representat…
The functions of structural priming
Structural priming refers to speakers' tendency to produce sentences with previously heard or produced syntactic structures. We review arguments and evidence for three common accounts of the functions of structural priming. One is that structural priming enhances fluency. Only some (reaction time and fluency measure) evidence supports this view. A second account argues that structural priming stems from implicit learning of how features of meanin…
Number Agreement in British and American English
British andAmerican speakers exhibit different verb number agreement patterns when sentence subjects have collective headnouns. From linguistic andpsycholinguistic accounts of how agreement is implemented, three alternative hypotheses can be derived to explain these differences. The hypotheses involve variations in the representation of notional number, disparities in how notional andgrammatical number are used, and inequalities in the grammatica…
Persistent structural priming from language comprehension to language production☆☆☆
Reaching agreement
How Much Correction of Syntactic Errors Are There, Anyway?'1
Speech errors are a traditional source of evidence about what speakers have to do, and what they occasionally fail to do, when they talk. In particular, the linguistic patterns in errors are theoretically informative for what they disclose about the language production process. Among the most notable regularities in errors is a strong tendency for the structures of sentences to remain stable when words move around. These stable structural propert…
Structural priming across languages
The work that Helga Loebell and I reported in 2003 was aimed at a hypothesis that once seemed far-fetched. The hypothesis was that fluent bilinguals would exhibit structural persistence between the languages they speak. The research itself was actually conducted by Loebell 15 years earlier for her master's degree at Michigan State University. It was motivated in part by Bock's findings about the consequences of structural priming (1986, 1989), al…
Resolving Conflicts in Natural and Grammatical Gender Agreement
Linguistics (20 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Language Development and Disorders (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 works) · Priming (agriculture) (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Natural language processing (8 works)