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Yi-ching Su; Ho-Yun Hsieh; Devin Tankersley; Chia-Hsing Chen – Second Language Research, 2025
This study reports on findings from two experiments investigating the interpretive patterns of overt pronouns in an embedded subject position with three types of matrix subjects (i.e. a referential NP, a quantified NP, or a "wh"-phrase) in Mandarin, English, and Japanese. According to the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC), overt pronouns in…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, Form Classes (Languages)
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Aina Casaponsa; M. Acebo García-Guerrero; Alejandro Martínez; Natalia Ojeda; Guillaume Thierry; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
"Taza" in Spanish refers to cups and mugs in English, whereas glass refers to different glass types in Spanish: "copa" and "vaso." It is still unclear whether such categorical distinctions induce early perceptual differences in speakers of different languages. In this study, for the first time, we report symmetrical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, English, Native Speakers
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Carrol, Gareth – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Idioms, along with other formulaic multiword phrases, represent a substantial part of vocabulary knowledge. This study investigates how idiom knowledge develops through the adult lifespan, comparing familiarity and transparency ratings for a large set of common English idioms. A total of 237 participants, ranging from 18 to 77 years old,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Native Speakers, Age Differences, English
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Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs; Suhad Sonbul; Ahmed Masrai – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The availability of a first language translation equivalent (i.e., congruency) has repeatedly been shown to influence second-language collocation processing in decontextualized tasks. However, no study to date has examined how L2 speakers process congruent/incongruent collocations on-line in a real-world context. The present study aimed to fill…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Translation
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Andrea Salins; Linda Cupples; Greg Leigh; Anne Castles – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Although most prevalent in childhood, the acquisition of new words in oral vocabulary takes place right across the lifespan. Of the many factors that influence oral vocabulary learning, one extrinsic factor is the listening environment. The current study aimed to examine whether the presence of noise impacts oral vocabulary learning in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Listening
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Cokal, Derya; Filik, Ruth; Sturt, Patrick; Poesio, Massimo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Corpus evidence suggests that in contexts in which the presence of multiple antecedents might favor plural reference, the disadvantage observed for singular reference may disappear if the potential antecedents are combined in a group-like plural entity. We examined the relative salience of antecedents in conditions where the context either made a…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Foreign Countries
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Gattis, Lyn F. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2023
This study investigated the extent to which lexical repetition in English passages developed in a content management system appeared to affect reading comprehension. Participants were 65 graduate students at a Midwestern public university, all of whom were native English readers. Instruments were two passages adjusted to maximize or minimize…
Descriptors: Repetition, English, Reading Comprehension, Technical Writing
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Saad Aldosari; Lauren Covey; Alison Gabriele – Second Language Research, 2024
We investigate sensitivity to island constraints in English native speakers and Najdi Arabic learners of English, examining (1) whether second language (L2) learners whose native language (L1) does not instantiate overt "wh"-movement are sensitive to island constraints and (2) the source of island effects. Under a grammatical account of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Undergraduate Students, Native Speakers
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Menglan Wang; Guiying Jiang; Yan Cheng – SAGE Open, 2024
This corpus-based multifactorial study delves deeper into the well-known alternation between bare and full infinitive complements, specifically regarding the "help" concordances. It extends the line of research to learners' language productions with a focus on comparing and contrasting the probabilistic grammatical knowledge reflected in…
Descriptors: English, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Grammar
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Takaaki Hiratsuka; Matthew Nall; Joachim Castellano – Language and Education, 2024
In this article, we cast a critical eye over a culturally dominant ideology--"native-speakerism." This ideology postulates that those deemed to be native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) are preferable over non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs), both as legitimate language models of English and as effective practitioners of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English, Language Teachers
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Dogus Öksüz; Vaclav Brezina; Padraic Monaghan; Patrick Rebuschat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Collocations are understood to be integral building blocks of language processing, alongside individual words, but thus far evidence for the psychological reality of collocations has tended to be confined to English. In contrast to English, Turkish is an agglutinating language, utilizing productive morphology to convey complex meanings using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Turkish, Native Speakers
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Taft, Marcus; Li, Junmin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Monolingual English speakers and Chinese-English bilinguals were compared on their lexical decision performance in a masked priming experiment where the prime and target ended in the same embedded word. All primes were nonwords where the letters in addition to the embedded word did not form a morpheme (e.g., the "sab" of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English, Bilingual Students
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Yanyu Guo; Boping Yuan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This article reports on an empirical study of L3 Mandarin, aiming to shed light on transfer effects and their interaction with other factors throughout the L3 acquisition trajectory. A fill-in-the-blank task was employed to examine L2 and L3 acquisition of three types of Mandarin sentence-final particle clusters. Participants in the study were…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language), English
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Cheng, Yesi; Cunnings, Ian; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine nonlocal agreement processing between native (L1) English speakers and Chinese-English second language (L2) learners, whose L1 lacks number agreement. We manipulated number marking with determiners ("the" vs. "that"/"these") to see how…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Processing, Native Speakers, English
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Hinano Iida; Kimi Akita – Cognitive Science, 2024
Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance between the form and meaning of a sign. Compelling evidence from diverse areas of the cognitive sciences suggests that iconicity plays a pivotal role in the processing, memory, learning, and evolution of both spoken and signed language, indicating that iconicity is a general property of language. However,…
Descriptors: Japanese, Cognitive Science, Language Processing, Memory
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