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Pylkkanen, Liina; Martin, Andrea E.; McElree, Brian; Smart, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2009
To study the neural bases of semantic composition in language processing without confounds from syntactic composition, recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies have investigated the processing of constructions that exhibit some type of syntax-semantics mismatch. The most studied case of such a mismatch is "complement coercion;" expressions such…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
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Riches, N. G.; Faragher, B.; Conti-Ramsden, G. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
It has been argued that children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) use language in a conservative manner. For example, they are reluctant to produce word-plus-frame combinations that they have not heard in the input. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that their utterances replicate lexical and syntactic material from the immediate…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentences, Nouns, Language Impairments
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Fayol, M.; Totereau, Corinne; Barrouillet, Pierre – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In written French, the acquisition of the nominal plural ("-s") occurs earlier and faster than the acquisition of the verbal plural ("-nt") (Totereau, Thevenin & Fayol, 1997, "Learning to Spell"). The reasons for this difference are not well known. The objective of the present research is to test two alternative hypotheses, which may provide an…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs