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The On-Line Processing of Unaccusativity in Greek Agrammatism
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Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi-Maria; Tsapkini, Kyrana – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity refers to the reactivation of the postverbal trace by retrieving the mnemonic representation…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, Patients, Sentences
The Impact of Verb Form, Sentence Position, Home Language, and Second Language Proficiency on Subject-Verb Agreement in Child Second Language Dutch
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Blom, Elma; Baayen, Harald R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
It has been argued that children learning a second language (L2) omit agreement inflection because of communication demands. The conclusion of these studies is that L2 children know the morphological and syntactic properties of agreement inflection, but sometimes insert an inflectional default form (i.e., the bare verb) in production. The present…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Child Language, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages
Construction of Graphic Symbol Sequences by Preschool-Aged Children: Learning, Training, and Maintenance
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Poupart, Annick; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
The use of augmentative and alternative communication systems based on graphic symbols requires children to learn to combine symbols to convey utterances. The current study investigated how children without disabilities aged 4 to 6 years (n = 74) performed on a simple sentence (subject-verb and subject-verb-object) transposition task (i.e., spoken…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Error Patterns, Verbs, Visual Aids
Honorifics: A Sociocultural Verb Agreement Cue in Japanese Sentence Processing
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Yoshimura, Yuki; MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Case marking is the major cue to sentence interpretation in Japanese, whereas animacy and word order are much weaker. However, when subjects and their cases markers are omitted, Japanese honorific and humble verbs can provide information that compensates for the missing case role markers. This study examined the usage of honorific and humble verbs…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Cues, Verbs, Grammar
Determinants of Cue Strength in Adult First and Second Language Speakers of French.
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McDonald, Janet L.; Heilenman, Kathy L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Investigates the determinants of adult usage of various syntactic and semantic cues in sentence interpretation. Native French speakers and advanced English/French bilinguals were tested for the strength of usage of word order, clitic pronoun agreement, verb agreement, and noun animacy cues in the assignment of the role in French sentences. (46…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cues, English, French
The Connection Between Verbs and Argument Structures: Native Speaker Production of the Double Object Dative.
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Wolfe-Quintero, Kate – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Investigated patterns and strength of connections between English dative verbs and the double-object dative argument structure in native-speaker production. Subjects completed three written production tasks using dative and other verbs from different semantic classes of verbs. Results show alternating dative verbs varied in patterns of connection…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Native Speakers, Semantics