The following article reports the results of a language production experiment investigating message planning.

Brown-Schmidt, S., and Konopka, A. (2008). Little houses and casas pequeñas: message formulation and syntactic form in unscripted speech with speakers of English and Spanish. Cognition, 109(2), 274-280.

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2) Answer the following seven (7) questions. Make sure to answer all parts of each question. Read each question carefully. Please answer each question separately and number each question. There are points assigned for each question and if we cannot figure out which question you are answering, we won’t be able to assign you points for that question. Please do not answer the entire assignment in essay format.

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1) Research Question

What is the main research question in this experiment?

2) Languages used

Explain why the researchers compared English and Spanish language production in this experiment. Do they predict differences in the production task in English compared to Spanish? Why or why not?

3) Experimental design

Describe the experimental design in this experiment. What was the task? In other words, what were participants asked to do?

4) Experimental materials

Explain the experimental materials in this experiment. What was being compared? What control did the researchers use?

5) Hypothesis and Predictions

JLP374F		Psychology of Language
Homework 2		Summer 2021

What is their main hypothesis? What are their predictions for the experiment?

6) Results

Explain the results for modification rates, (dis)fluencies, and eye fixations.

7) Theoretical implications

What do the results suggest about message and linguistic planning? Be sure to discuss what the disfluency results can tell us about message planning.

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Psychology of Language Little houses and casas pequeas 1 Main research question The main research question is to predict the relationship between message planning and linguistic planning to assess wha... View the full answer