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Compliments, Compliment Responses, And Gender, Sam Laveson
Compliments, Compliment Responses, And Gender, Sam Laveson
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This paper argues that the ways cisgender men versus women tend to respond to compliments can be related to the ways that cisgender men and women tend to give compliments in same-sex interactions (SSIs), based on the framework of politeness. In order to construct this argument, this paper draws on literature review, specifically works that have been authored and published by other scholars in the field of language and gender. Many of these scholars study the giving of compliments and the receiving of compliments, but those two concepts are often studied separately. As such, this paper adds to the field …
Teasing Apart Encoding And Retrieval Interference In Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Agreement Attraction, Daniel Parker, Kelly Konrad
Teasing Apart Encoding And Retrieval Interference In Sentence Comprehension: Evidence From Agreement Attraction, Daniel Parker, Kelly Konrad
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This study investigates interference effects in sentence processing. A parade case involves agreement attraction, where the processing of a number mismatch between a verb and its subject is eased by a number-matching lure (*The keytarget to the cabinetslure were rusty), relative to sentences where neither noun matches the verb (*The key to the cabinet were rusty). Existing accounts claim that this effect reflects error-prone retrieval or misrepresentation of the target. Recently, a third account has been proposed which claims that the contrast between the two configurations reflects increased difficulty in the second sentence due to feature overwriting in the encoding …