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Filip Nenadic; Ryan G. Podlubny; Daniel Schmidtke; Matthew C. Kelley; Benjamin V. Tucker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of "semantic richness" in auditory lexical decision. Study 1 recreated an experiment investigating semantic richness effects…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Semantics, Auditory Stimuli
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Ivan Lasan – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study explores whether English-dominant (ED) speakers and speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) perceive the same degrees of formality in combinations of (in)formal greetings (Hi/Dear) and address forms (informal First Name/Ms. Last Name) with (in)formal nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Latinate/Germanic). It also explores which of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Nouns, Verbs
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Yuriko Oshima-Takane – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Using a habituation paradigm with a three-switch design, the present study investigated whether 20-month-old French-learning infants use noun and verb morphosyntactic cues to learn novel words in dynamic events differentially when both the agent and the action interpretations are possible. Of particular interest was whether infants' initial…
Descriptors: Infants, Nouns, Verbs, Language Usage
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Priven, Dmitri – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
Complex noun phrases (CNP) are a major vehicle of academic written discourse (Halliday, 1988; 2004). However, in spite of the view that they pose significant challenges to English language learners, they are often overlooked in preparatory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs. This mixed methods study aims to investigate to what extent CNP…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, English for Academic Purposes, Syntax
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Dmitri Priven – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Complex noun phrases (CNP) are a major vehicle of academic written discourse (Halliday, 1988/2004). However, despite the view that they pose significant challenges to English language learners, they are rarely taught in college-based English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, especially for the purposes of improving reading comprehension. This…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, English for Academic Purposes
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Campbell, Jennifer; Mihalicz, Patrick; Thiessen, Erik; Curtin, Suzanne – Developmental Psychology, 2018
English-learning infants attend to lexical stress when learning new words. Attention to lexical stress might be beneficial for word learning by providing an indication of the grammatical class of that word. English disyllabic nouns commonly have trochaic (strong-weak) stress, whereas English disyllabic verbs commonly have iambic (weak-strong)…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Nouns, Infants, English
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Martini, Juliane – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the appropriateness of open-access reading materials for an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, and to provide teachers with a set of criteria to select online texts systematically and efficiently. The Corpus for Veterinarians (VetCorpus) was compiled and analyzed using Lextutor corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Open Source Technology, Academic Language, Vocabulary Development
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McGregor, Meredith Jocelyn Jane – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
Cognates have served as a useful tool for investigating the bilingual lexicon in many studies, but very little research has been carried out on different types of cognates, specifically, partial cognates and their role in cross-linguistic effect. The present study examines cognate effect in the speech production and acceptability judgment of two…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)