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Gollan, Tamar H.; Goldrick, Matthew – Cognition, 2012
The current study investigated whether bilingualism affects the processing of sub-lexical representations specifying the sound structure of words. Spanish-English bilinguals, Mandarin-English bilinguals, and English-only monolinguals repeated English tongue twisters. Twister materials had word or nonword targets (thus varying in whether lexical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English
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Goldberg, Adele E. – Cognition, 2013
Typologists have long observed that there are certain distributional patterns that are not evenly distributed among the world's languages. This discussion note revisits a recent experimental investigation of one such intriguing case, so-called "universal 18", by Culbertson, Smolensky, and Legendre (2012). The authors find that adult learners are…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Adult Students, Grammar, Artificial Languages
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Duncan, Lynne G.; Castro, Sao Luis; Defior, Sylvia; Seymour, Philip H. K.; Baillie, Sheila; Leybaert, Jacqueline; Mousty, Philippe; Genard, Nathalie; Sarris, Menelaos; Porpodas, Costas D.; Lund, Rannveig; Sigurosson, Baldur; Prainsdottir, Anna S.; Sucena, Ana; Serrano, Francisca – Cognition, 2013
Phonological development was assessed in six alphabetic orthographies (English, French, Greek, Icelandic, Portuguese and Spanish) at the beginning and end of the first year of reading instruction. The aim was to explore contrasting theoretical views regarding: the question of the availability of phonology at the outset of learning to read (Study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Literacy
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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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Coventry, Kenny R.; Valdes, Berenice; Castillo, Alejandro; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Cognition, 2008
Spatial demonstratives ("this/that") play a crucial role when indicating object locations using language. However, the relationship between the use of these proximal and distal linguistic descriptors and the near (peri-personal) versus far (extra-personal) perceptual space distinction is a source of controversy [Kemmerer, D. (1999). "Near" and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Spatial Ability, Language Processing, English
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Pyers, Jennie E.; Gollan, Tamar H.; Emmorey, Karen – Cognition, 2009
Bilinguals report more tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) failures than monolinguals. Three accounts of this disadvantage are that bilinguals experience between-language interference at (a) semantic and/or (b) phonological levels, or (c) that bilinguals use each language less frequently than monolinguals. Bilinguals who speak one language and sign another…
Descriptors: Semantics, Interference (Language), American Sign Language, Semiotics
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Pulverman, Rachel; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Buresh, Jennifer Sootsman – Cognition, 2008
Do 14- to 17-month-olds notice the paths and manners of motion events? English- and Spanish-learning infants were habituated to an animated motion event including a manner (e.g., spinning) and a path (e.g., over). They were then tested on four types of events that changed either the manner, the path, both, or neither component. Both English- and…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Language Acquisition, English
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Brown-Schmidt, Sarah; Konopka, Agnieszka E. – Cognition, 2008
During unscripted speech, speakers coordinate the formulation of pre-linguistic messages with the linguistic processes that implement those messages into speech. We examine the process of constructing a contextually appropriate message and interfacing that message with utterance planning in English ("the small butterfly") and Spanish ("la mariposa…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics, Educational Policy, Syntax
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Gilboy, Elizabeth; And Others – Cognition, 1995
Three studies investigated Spanish and English readers' interpretations of sentences with complex noun phrases (NPs). In contrast to earlier findings, results provided evidence for cross-language universality of the late closure parsing principle. Results suggest that late closure is not language-specific but specific to only certain classes of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Language Patterns, Nouns
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Gibson, Edward; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Provides new evidence from Spanish and English self-paced reading experiments on relative clause attachment sites. Suggests that a principle like Late Closure is universally operative in the human parser. Proposes that a second factor is the principle of Predicate Proximity. Discusses the origins and predictions of the theory combining these two…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English, Language Processing, Language Research
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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