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Maguire, Mandy J.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Imai, Mutsumi; Haryu, Etsuko; Vanegas, Sandra; Okada, Hiroyuki; Pulverman, Rachel; Sanchez-Davis, Brenda – Cognition, 2010
The world's languages draw on a common set of event components for their verb systems. Yet, these components are differentially distributed across languages. At what age do children begin to use language-specific patterns to narrow possible verb meanings? English-, Japanese-, and Spanish-speaking adults, toddlers, and preschoolers were shown…
Descriptors: Verbs, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Contrastive Linguistics
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Betancort, Moises; Carreiras, Manuel; Acuna-Farina, Carlos – Cognition, 2006
Two experiments were carried out to investigate the processing of the empty category PRO and the time-course of this in Spanish. Eye movements were recorded while participants read sentences in which a matrix clause was followed by a subordinate infinitival clause, so that the subject or the object of the main clause could act as controller of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Spanish, Eye Movements, Grammar
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Gennari, Silvia P.; Sloman, Steven A.; Malt, Barbara C.; Fitch, W. Tecumseh – Cognition, 2002
Examined whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predicted how college student speakers performed in recognition memory and similarity judgment tasks. Found no language effect in recognition memory after either linguistic or non-linguistic encoding, nor in similarity judgments after non-linguistic…
Descriptors: College Students, Encoding (Psychology), English, Evaluative Thinking
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Reports four experiments examining subject-verb agreement errors in Spanish and English. Discusses cross-linguistic differences within the framework of the computational model of grammatical encoding proposed by Kempen and Hoenkamp. Suggests that languages differ in the extent to which the selection of the verb is controlled by features on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English