Alissa Melinger

Publication List Details

Period

2001 - 2009

Number

11

Co-Authors

Identifying Semantic Relations and Functional Properties of Human Verb Associations (2009)

Alissa Melinger

This paper uses human verb associations as the basis for an investigation of verb properties, focusing on semantic verb relations and prominent nominal features. First, the lexical semantic taxonymy...

Enhanced phonological facilitation and traces of concurrent word form activation in speech production (2007)

Abdel Rahman, Rasha, Melinger, Alissa

In the present study, we extended the classic picture–word interference paradigm by the presentation of multiple distractor words (Experiment 1) to reexamine whether the word forms of semantic...

Enhanced phonological facilitation and traces of concurrent word form activation in speech production (2007)

Abdel Rahman, Rasha, Melinger, Alissa

In the present study, we extended the classic picture–word interference paradigm by the presentation of multiple distractor words (Experiment 1) to reexamine whether the word forms of semantic...

When Bees Hamper the Production of Honey (2007)

Abdel Rahman, Rasha, Melinger, Alissa

In this article, the authors explore semantic context effects in speaking. In particular, the authors investigate a marked discrepancy between categorically and associatively induced effects; only...

When Bees Hamper the Production of Honey (2007)

Abdel Rahman, Rasha, Melinger, Alissa

In this article, the authors explore semantic context effects in speaking. In particular, the authors investigate a marked discrepancy between categorically and associatively induced effects; only...

Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker (2004)

Alissa Melinger

This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. We used a picture description task in which speakers...

When is schematic participant information encoded: Evidence from eye-monitoring (2002)

Mauner, Gail, Melinger, Alissa, Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Bienvenue, Breton

Two eye-monitoring studies examined when unexpressed schematic participant information specified by verbs is used during sentence processing. Experiment 1 compared the processing of sentences with...

Foot structure and accent in Seneca (2002)

Melinger, Alissa

Argues that the Seneca accent system can be explained more simply and naturally if the foot structure is reanalyzed as trochaic. Determination of the position of the accent by the position and...

When is schematic participant information encoded? Evidence from eye-monitoring (2002)

Gail Mauner, Alissa Melinger, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Breton Bienvenue

Two eye-monit##(3 st-mon examined when unexpressedschemats parttssed informated specified by verbs is used duringsentgP( processing.Experiment 1 comparedtm processing ofsentC7VP wit passive and...