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Boloh, Yves; Ibernon, Laure – Cognitive Development, 2010
Grammatical gender is generally considered an early and error-free acquisition in French children. This article first examines how children cope with the gender attribution problem, "i.e.", how they determine the gender of individual nouns. We consider the plausibility and requirements of an account in which tacit phonological assignment rules are…
Descriptors: Nouns, French, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Hochmann, Jean-Remy; Endress, Ansgar D.; Mehler, Jacques – Cognition, 2010
While content words (e.g., 'dog') tend to carry meaning, function words (e.g., 'the') mainly serve syntactic purposes. Here, we ask whether 17-month old infants can use one language-universal cue to identify function word candidates: their high frequency of occurrence. In Experiment 1, infants listened to a series of short, naturally recorded…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Infants
Morrison, Michelle Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a grammar of Rena (ISO bez), a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Tanzania by approximately 600,000 people. Bena is largely undocumented, and though aspects of Bena grammar have been described, there is no usable, detailed treatment of the Bena language. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is provide the first detailed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
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Goldsmith, John; Xanthos, Aris – Language, 2009
This article describes in detail several explicit computational methods for approaching such questions in phonology as the vowel/consonant distinction, the nature of vowel harmony systems, and syllable structure, appealing solely to distributional information. Beginning with the vowel/consonant distinction, we consider a method for its discovery…
Descriptors: Syllables, Vowels, Nouns, Phonology
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Miozzo, Michele; Fischer-Baum, Simon; Postman, Jeffrey – Neuropsychologia, 2010
We report the case of an English-speaking aphasic patient (JP) with left posterior-frontal damage affecting the inferior frontal and precentral gyri. In speaking, JP was impaired with the regular inflections of nouns and pseudonouns, making errors like "pears" instead of "pear" or "door" for "doors", while the spoken production of noun stems and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonology, Semantics, Verbs
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Qiu, Chunan – English Language Teaching, 2009
Cyclic Linearization is adopted to account for the island repair of Sluicing in English. The extraction of wh-phrase out of certain islands undergoes non-successive-cyclic movement, which yields conflicting ordering statements. The derivation can be rescued by deleting all ordering statements in IP, including those conflicting ones. Two arguments…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Language Research, English
Jeong, Hee-Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Despite longstanding arguments concerning the grammatical categories, functions, and status of the Korean and Japanese copulas within each language system, hardly any attention has been given to their comparative study. Researchers have asked about the function and status of the variant forms of the Japanese copula, and whether they should be…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Syntax, Suffixes
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Yang, Jin-Chen; Yang, Yu-Fang – Language and Speech, 2008
A variant of the picture--word interference paradigm was used in three experiments to investigate the horizontal information flow of semantic and phonological information between nouns in spoken Mandarin Chinese sentences. Experiment 1 demonstrated that there is a semantic interference effect when the word in the second phrase (N3) and the first…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese
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Kaji, Shigeki – Language Sciences, 2009
This paper explores the interaction of tone and syntax in Rutooro, a Bantu language of Western Uganda. Rutooro has lost its lexical tone but retains a phrasally defined high pitch that appears on the penultimate syllable--the default position in Bantu. This high pitch can work grammatically and in fact distinguishes between the noun phrase vs.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Syllables, Nouns, Syntax
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Lukacs, Agnes; Leonard, Laurence B.; Kas, Bence – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Children with language impairment often exhibit significant difficulty in the use of grammatical morphology. Although English-speaking children with language impairment have special difficulties with verb morphology, noun morphology can also be problematic in languages of a different typology. Aims: Hungarian is an agglutinating…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Language Impairments
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Biedermann, Britta; Ruh, Nicolas; Nickels, Lyndsey; Coltheart, Max – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
Research on Tip of the Tongue (ToT) states has been used to determine whether access to syntactic information precedes access to phonological information. This paper argues that previous studies have used insufficient analyses when investigating the nature of seriality of access. In the first part of this paper, these complex issues are discussed…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Nouns, Information Retrieval
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Demuth, Katherine; Machobane, Malillo; Moloi, Francina – Language, 2009
Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of "unmarked" phonological, syntactic, and discourse conditions. This raises the question of how and when the licensing of null prefixes is learned. Using…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, African Languages, Morphemes
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Segal, Osnat; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha; Kishon-Rabin, Liat; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The study examines prosodic characteristics of Hebrew speech directed to children between 0 ; 9-3 ; 0 years, based on longitudinal samples of 228,946 tokens (8,075 types). The distribution of prosodic patterns--the number of syllables and stress patterns--is analyzed across three lexical categories, distinguishing not only between open- and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Suprasegmentals, Nouns, Language Patterns
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Storkel, Holly L. – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The influence of phonological (i.e. individual sounds), lexical (i.e. whole-word forms) and semantic (i.e. meaning) characteristics on the words known by infants age 1;4 to 2;6 was examined, using an existing database (Dale & Fenson, 1996). For each noun, word frequency, two phonological (i.e. positional segment average, biphone average), two…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Vocabulary, Infants
Abdelghany, Hala – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the syntax-prosody interface in Standard Arabic, focusing on the ambiguity of a modifier (relative clause or adjective phrase) in relation to the two nouns in a complex noun phrase. Ambiguity resolution tendencies for this construction differ across languages, contrary to otherwise universal parsing tendencies. One…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Sentences, Silent Reading, Phonology
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