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Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattansone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Subject-verb (SV) agreement helps listeners interpret the number condition of ambiguous nouns ("The sheep is/are fat"), yet it remains unclear whether young children use agreement to comprehend newly encountered nouns. Preschoolers and adults completed a forced choice task where sentences contained singular vs. plural copulas…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
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Lee, James F. – Hispania, 2017
The present study examines how second language learners (L2) assign the thematic roles of agent/patient in Spanish passive sentences with "ser" (often referred to as the true passive) when it is their initial exposure to this structure. The target sentences were preceded by a contextual sentence. After hearing the two sentences,…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Processing
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Miller, Julia – Journal of Learning Design, 2012
Many people imagine dictionaries to be bulky tomes that are hard to lift and are only useful for quick translations or to check the meaning or spelling of difficult words. This paper aims to dispel that myth and show how online versions of monolingual English learners' dictionaries (MELDs) can be used pedagogically to engage students in academic…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Dictionaries, Spelling, Foreign Countries
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O'Toole, John Mitchell; King, Robert A. R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This quantitative study intends to better understand the impact of the location of the first deleted word upon the estimation of text difficulty yielded by successive cloze tests based on random deletion from a single passage. The variation in sampling of language features across five cloze tests based on the same passage is random and thus not…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Readability, Nouns, Figurative Language
Halliday, M. A. K. – 1977
The chapters in this book originated as open lectures and each reflects the occasion on which it was presented. The three chapters are: "Grammar, Society, and the Noun"; "The Context of Linguistics"; and "Ideas about Language." Chapters 1 and 3 were given as inaugural lectures that celebrated the foundation of new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics
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Arciuli, Joanne; Cupples, Linda – Language and Speech, 2003
The experiments reported here were designed to investigate the influence of stress typicality during speeded grammatical classification of disyllabic English words by native and non-native speakers. Trochaic nouns and iambic verbs were considered to be typically stressed, whereas iambic nouns and trochaic verbs were considered to be atypically…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns