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Millotte, Severine; Rene, Alice; Wales, Roger; Christophe, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two experiments tested whether phonological phrase boundaries constrain online syntactic analysis in French. Pairs of homophones belonging to different syntactic categories (verb and adjective) were used to create sentences with a local syntactic ambiguity (e.g., [le petit chien "mort"], in English, the "dead" little dog, vs.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Language Acquisition
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Megherbi, Hakima; Ehrlich, Marie-France – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The purpose of this experiment, conducted with second-grade children (mean age: 7;8), was to examine the hypothesis that less skilled comprehenders in a reading situation suffer an impairment in spoken language comprehension and, more specifically, in the on-line processing of anaphoric pronouns. Skilled and less skilled comprehenders performed a…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)