Janet Nicol
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Nicol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicol |
| SIGNATURE | NICOL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5528-1266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How fuzzy are L2 phonological representations
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An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Investigation of Filler-Gap Processing in Native and Second Language Speakers
The current study employed a neuro-imaging technique, Event-Related Potentials (ERP), to investigate real-time processing of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies by late-learning speakers of English as a second language (L2) with a Chinese native language background. An individual differences approach was also taken to examine the role of proficiency and working memory. Materials included a plausibility manipulation to look at whether a p…
Learning the Phonological Forms of New Words: Effects of Orthographic and Auditory Input
We investigated the relationship between the phonological and orthographic representations of new words for adult learners. Three groups of native English speakers learned a set of auditorily-presented pseudowords along with pictures indicating their “meanings”. They were later tested on their memory of the words via an auditory word—picture matching test. While all three groups of participants heard the same auditory stimuli and saw the same pic…
The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms
The role of polysemy in masked semantic and translation priming
Subject-verb agreement errors in French and English: The role of syntactic hierarchy
We report two parallel experiments conducted in French and in English in which we induced subject-verb agreement errors to explore the role of syntactic structure during sentence production. Previous studies have shown that attraction errors (i.e., a tendency of the verb to agree with an immediately preceding noun instead of with the subject of the sentence) occur when a preverbal local noun disagrees in number with the subject head noun. The att…
The Role of Language in Memory for Actions
The Relation between Gender and Number Agreement Processing
We report an experiment in which we test the relationship between gender and number in subject-predicate agreement. We also test the link between two different number-agreement relations-subject-verb and subject-predicative adjective. Participants saw first an unmarked adjective and then a sentence fragment consisting of a complex subject with a head noun and a modifier containing a second noun and were asked to make a whole sentence using the ad…
Semantic Factors in the Production of Number Agreement
Word Frequency Effects on the Processing of Subject–Verb Number Agreement
Celebrating a Quarter Century of (The Journal of) Psycholinguistic Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue
What can prosody tell a parser
Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors
Children's Knowledge of Binding and Coreference: Evidence from Spontaneous Speech
In experiments requiring sentence comprehension, young children sometimes appear to accept coreference in sentences such as Thelma touched her. This has motivated the claim that 4- and 5-year-olds lack knowledge of the principles of binding and coreference. Another option, however, is that the requisite principles are present from the very start and children's poor performance is due to performance factors. We test this claim through a longitudin…
Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences: Evidence from semantic priming
Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
Theoretical considerations and diverse empirical data from clinical, psycholinguistic, and developmental studies suggest that language comprehension processes are decomposable into separate subsystems, including distinct systems for semantic and grammatical processing. Here we report that event-related potentials (ERPs) to syntactically well-formed but semantically anomalous sentences produced a pattern of brain activity that is distinct in timin…
The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
Clausal Intonation After Unilateral Brain Damage
Thirteen right-handed adult speakers, including five patients with unilateral left-hemisphere damage, four patients with unilateral right-hemisphere damage, and four patients with non-neurological damage, read aloud sentences designed to test influences of clause and utterance length on two acoustical measures of intonation, fundamental voice frequency ( F o ) and timing. Patients with unilateral damage to the left-hemisphere exhibited more abnor…
Vers un Modele Concret de la Phonologie des Emprunts
Depuis une douzaine d’années, un certain nombre de principes ont été énoncés en phonologie générative pour tenter de rendre compte de l’adaptation et de la modification des mots d’emprunt. A l’aide des données qui ont été recueillies dans une étude détaillée de la phonologie des emprunts du québécois de la région de Montréal (cf. Nicol 1979), où l’anglais (A) constitue la langue d’origine (LO) et le québécois (Q) la langue emprunteuse (LE), nous …
The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
The Relation between Gender and Number Agreement Processing
We report an experiment in which we test the relationship between gender and number in subject-predicate agreement. We also test the link between two different number-agreement relations-subject-verb and subject-predicative adjective. Participants saw first an unmarked adjective and then a sentence fragment consisting of a complex subject with a head noun and a modifier containing a second noun and were asked to make a whole sentence using the ad…
Learning the Phonological Forms of New Words: Effects of Orthographic and Auditory Input
We investigated the relationship between the phonological and orthographic representations of new words for adult learners. Three groups of native English speakers learned a set of auditorily-presented pseudowords along with pictures indicating their “meanings”. They were later tested on their memory of the words via an auditory word—picture matching test. While all three groups of participants heard the same auditory stimuli and saw the same pic…
Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences: Evidence from semantic priming
Children's Knowledge of Binding and Coreference: Evidence from Spontaneous Speech
In experiments requiring sentence comprehension, young children sometimes appear to accept coreference in sentences such as Thelma touched her. This has motivated the claim that 4- and 5-year-olds lack knowledge of the principles of binding and coreference. Another option, however, is that the requisite principles are present from the very start and children's poor performance is due to performance factors. We test this claim through a longitudin…
The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms
The Role of Language in Memory for Actions
What can prosody tell a parser
Clausal Intonation After Unilateral Brain Damage
Thirteen right-handed adult speakers, including five patients with unilateral left-hemisphere damage, four patients with unilateral right-hemisphere damage, and four patients with non-neurological damage, read aloud sentences designed to test influences of clause and utterance length on two acoustical measures of intonation, fundamental voice frequency ( F o ) and timing. Patients with unilateral damage to the left-hemisphere exhibited more abnor…
An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Investigation of Filler-Gap Processing in Native and Second Language Speakers
The current study employed a neuro-imaging technique, Event-Related Potentials (ERP), to investigate real-time processing of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies by late-learning speakers of English as a second language (L2) with a Chinese native language background. An individual differences approach was also taken to examine the role of proficiency and working memory. Materials included a plausibility manipulation to look at whether a p…
Semantic Factors in the Production of Number Agreement
Celebrating a Quarter Century of (The Journal of) Psycholinguistic Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors
Vers un Modele Concret de la Phonologie des Emprunts
Depuis une douzaine d’années, un certain nombre de principes ont été énoncés en phonologie générative pour tenter de rendre compte de l’adaptation et de la modification des mots d’emprunt. A l’aide des données qui ont été recueillies dans une étude détaillée de la phonologie des emprunts du québécois de la région de Montréal (cf. Nicol 1979), où l’anglais (A) constitue la langue d’origine (LO) et le québécois (Q) la langue emprunteuse (LE), nous …
Clausal Intonation After Unilateral Brain Damage
Thirteen right-handed adult speakers, including five patients with unilateral left-hemisphere damage, four patients with unilateral right-hemisphere damage, and four patients with non-neurological damage, read aloud sentences designed to test influences of clause and utterance length on two acoustical measures of intonation, fundamental voice frequency ( F o ) and timing. Patients with unilateral damage to the left-hemisphere exhibited more abnor…
The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension
Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
Theoretical considerations and diverse empirical data from clinical, psycholinguistic, and developmental studies suggest that language comprehension processes are decomposable into separate subsystems, including distinct systems for semantic and grammatical processing. Here we report that event-related potentials (ERPs) to syntactically well-formed but semantically anomalous sentences produced a pattern of brain activity that is distinct in timin…
Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences: Evidence from semantic priming
Children's Knowledge of Binding and Coreference: Evidence from Spontaneous Speech
In experiments requiring sentence comprehension, young children sometimes appear to accept coreference in sentences such as Thelma touched her. This has motivated the claim that 4- and 5-year-olds lack knowledge of the principles of binding and coreference. Another option, however, is that the requisite principles are present from the very start and children's poor performance is due to performance factors. We test this claim through a longitudin…
Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors
What can prosody tell a parser
Celebrating a Quarter Century of (The Journal of) Psycholinguistic Research: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Word Frequency Effects on the Processing of Subject–Verb Number Agreement
Semantic Factors in the Production of Number Agreement
Subject-verb agreement errors in French and English: The role of syntactic hierarchy
We report two parallel experiments conducted in French and in English in which we induced subject-verb agreement errors to explore the role of syntactic structure during sentence production. Previous studies have shown that attraction errors (i.e., a tendency of the verb to agree with an immediately preceding noun instead of with the subject of the sentence) occur when a preverbal local noun disagrees in number with the subject head noun. The att…
The Role of Language in Memory for Actions
The Relation between Gender and Number Agreement Processing
We report an experiment in which we test the relationship between gender and number in subject-predicate agreement. We also test the link between two different number-agreement relations-subject-verb and subject-predicative adjective. Participants saw first an unmarked adjective and then a sentence fragment consisting of a complex subject with a head noun and a modifier containing a second noun and were asked to make a whole sentence using the ad…
The role of polysemy in masked semantic and translation priming
The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms
Learning the Phonological Forms of New Words: Effects of Orthographic and Auditory Input
We investigated the relationship between the phonological and orthographic representations of new words for adult learners. Three groups of native English speakers learned a set of auditorily-presented pseudowords along with pictures indicating their “meanings”. They were later tested on their memory of the words via an auditory word—picture matching test. While all three groups of participants heard the same auditory stimuli and saw the same pic…
An Event-Related Potential (ERP) Investigation of Filler-Gap Processing in Native and Second Language Speakers
The current study employed a neuro-imaging technique, Event-Related Potentials (ERP), to investigate real-time processing of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies by late-learning speakers of English as a second language (L2) with a Chinese native language background. An individual differences approach was also taken to examine the role of proficiency and working memory. Materials included a plausibility manipulation to look at whether a p…
How fuzzy are L2 phonological representations
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