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Shi, Rushen; Melancon, Andreane – Infancy, 2010
Recent work showed that infants recognize and store function words starting from the age of 6-8 months. Using a visual fixation procedure, the present study tested whether French-learning 14-month-olds have the knowledge of syntactic categories of determiners and pronouns, respectively, and whether they can use these function words for…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Infants, Classification
Thieme, Katja – Written Communication, 2010
This article offers a way of using the theory of audience design--how speakers position different audience groups as main addressees, overhearers, or bystanders--for written discourse. It focuses on main addressees, that is, those audience members who are expected to participate in and respond to a speaker's utterances. The text samples are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Audience Analysis, Rhetoric
Shi, Rushen; Lepage, Melanie – Developmental Science, 2008
This study examines the role of functional morphemes in the earliest stage of lexical development. Recent research showed that prelinguistic infants can perceive functional morphemes. We inquire whether infants use frequent functors to segment potential word forms. French-learning 8-month-olds were familiarized to two utterance types: a novel noun…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Infants, Language Acquisition
Nicoladis, Elena; Rose, Alyssa; Foursha-Stevenson, Cassandra – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
Bilingual children sometimes produce constructions influenced by their other language (cross-linguistic transfer). Transfer can often be predicted by the existence of overlapping and ambiguous constructions in both languages. In this paper, we investigate whether cross-linguistic transfer occurs when overlapping constructions exist, but there are…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, Nouns, Transfer of Training
Chambers, Craig G.; Cooke, Hilary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
A spoken language eye-tracking methodology was used to evaluate the effects of sentence context and proficiency on parallel language activation during spoken language comprehension. Nonnative speakers with varying proficiency levels viewed visual displays while listening to French sentences (e.g., "Marie va decrire la poule" [Marie will…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Eye Movements, Nouns

Yuille, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
An experiment is reported in which connective recall, as well as noun recall, was obtained in a pair-associate learning, syntactic facilitation paradigm. Results were interpreted as consistent with the hypothesis that experimenter-supplied verb links facilitate noun pair learning by serving an instructional role, indicating to the subject how a…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Processes, Nouns, Paired Associate Learning
Gagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The present experiments investigate the influence of modifier relation frequency and discourse context on the interpretation of novel noun-noun phrases (as measured by both the ease of interpretation and the types of interpretations that are provided). We assess whether people access knowledge about the relations with which the modifier is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Concept Formation, Nouns, Phrase Structure

Nadasdi, Terry – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Analyzes two variants of subject doubling in Ontario French: a non-doubled variant and a doubled variant containing a clitic agreement marker. It is proposed that the doubled variant is favored when the clitic's default features match those of the subject NP (noun phrase), while lack of matching favors the non-doubled variant.(Author/JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Surridge, Marie E.; Lessard, Gregory – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1984
Test results for final-year French students in Canadian universities show they have not mastered the gender of some of the most frequent French nouns. Two recommendations are to continue to seek simplification of the learning of gender and to require students to use the full range of syntactic transformations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French

Desrochers, Alain; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
The mnemonic keyword method was modified to help French-speaking undergraduates at a Canadian university learn the meaning and the grammatical gender of German nouns. Results bear on the encoding and retrieval of complex associations between a German noun and its grammatical gender. (TJH)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Definitions, Encoding (Psychology), Foreign Countries

Carroll, Susanne E. – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated whether beginning adult learners, given auditory stimuli, were equally likely to represent French gender subclasses using phonological, morphosyntactic, and/or semantic representations. Data from adult English speakers learning patterned French and translation equivalent lists indicated that the construct of input for gender learning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
Monod, Pierre; Monod, Madeleine – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1977
For years, French language instructors in Alberta have wondered about the possibility of coordinating in a better way their students' transition from last year of secondary education to first year at the university level. At the end of a university year, errors were found in the French compositions of 34 randomly chosen students (out of 68), which…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Articulation (Education), Error Analysis (Language)

Grondin, Nathalie; White, Lydia – Language Acquisition, 1996
Investigates the functional projections in second-language (L2) acquisition by examining the emergence of functional categories in the L2 acquisition of French by children. Data include the productive use of determiners, inflection, case marking, subject clitics, wh-questions, and correct negative placement. (57 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Foreign Countries

Budzhak-Jones, Svitlana; Poplack, Shana – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the quantitative conditioning of English lone nouns of one language used in discourse in Ukrainian in a Canadian setting. Results yield a synchronic portrait of the integrated loanword, even when it bears no surface indication of that integration, is neither recurrent nor widespread, and has no history of attestation or other status in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Silva, David J., Ed. – 1998
A collection of research in Japanese and Korean linguistics includes: "Repetition, Reformulation, and Definitions: Prosodic Indexes of Elaboration in Japanese" (Mieko Banno); "Projection of Talk Using Language, Intonation, Deictic and Iconic Gestures and Other Body Movements" (Keiko Emmett); "Turn-taking in Japanese…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advertising, Bilingualism, Broadcast Television
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