List of figures
Figure 3.1
A scematic diagram of the major processes in reading comprehension (Just & Carpenter 1980: 331)
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Figure 3.2
Idealized waveform of the computer-averaged auditory event-related
potential (ERP) to a brief sound (Hillyard & Kutas 1983: 35)
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Figure 3.3
N400 effect at moderate and strong semantic mismatch (Kutas & Hillyard
1980: 203)
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Figure 3.4
N400, ELAN and P600 components in the ERP (Friederici 2002: 81)
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Figure 6.1
Brain potentials in relation to contextual constraint, Cloze probability
and semantic relatedness (Kutas &
Hillyard 1984: 152)
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Figure 6.2
Differences in the processing of literal and figuratice collocations
(Molinaro & Carreiras
2010: 183)
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Figure 6.3
The Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM) of Bilingual Lexical Activation
(Kroll & Stewart
1994 as adapted in Sunderman & Kroll 2006: 392)
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Figure 6.4
Subtraction N400 of native speakers, intermediate and advanced Japanese
learners of English (Ojima et al
2005: 1218)
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Figure 8.1
AoI1: First Fixation Duration by condition (all)
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Figure 8.2
AoI1: First Fixation Duration by Word Class
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Figure 8.3
AoI1: First Fixation Duration by Degree Course and Word Class
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Figure 8.4
AoI1: First Fixation Duration by Sentence Condition and Word
Class
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Figure 8.5
AoI1: Fixation Time (ms) by Condition (median)
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Figure 8.6
AoI1: Fixation Time (ms) by Word Class (mean)
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Figure 8.7
Revisits by Word Class and Condition: Word Class (all) / Mean
values
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Figure 9.1
Processing in word reading (Sereno
& Rayner 2003: 490)
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Figure 9.2
EEG-Reading at sentence onset – Grand Average/Group (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.3
EEG-Reading at sentence onset – Word Class/Group (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.4
EEG-Reading at sentence onset – Condition/Group (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.5
EEG-Reading at sentence onset – Degree Course/Condition (Fz, Cz,
Pz)
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Figure 9.6
EEG-Reading at AoI1 – Grand average/Group (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.7
EEG-Reading at AoI1 – Word Class/Group (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.8
EEG-Reading at AoI1 – Condition/Deg_Course (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.9
EEG-Reading at AoI1 – Deg_Course/Condition (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.10
EEG-Reading at AoI2 – Grand average/Group (Fz, Cz Pz)
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Figure 9.11
EEG-Reading at AoI2 – Degree course: Word Class (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.12
EEG-Reading at AoI2 – Condition/Deg_Course (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 9.13
EEG-Reading at AoI2 – Deg_Course/Condition (Fz, Cz, Pz)
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Figure 10.1
EEG-Reading at sentence onset – Deg_Course/Condition (Fz)
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Figure 10.2
EEG-Reading at AoI1 – Deg_Course/Condition (Fz)
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Figure 10.3
EEG-Reading at AoI2 – Deg_Course/Condition (Cz)
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