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Ran Li; ShiMin Chen; Swathi Kiran – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Following the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) framework, the current study investigated the active ingredients in the modified semantic feature analysis (mSFA) targeting either noun or verb retrieval in Mandarin-English bilingual adults with aphasia (BWA). Method: Twelve Mandarin-English BWA completed mSFA treatment…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Aphasia, Mandarin Chinese, English
Christine E. Potter; Casey Lew-Williams – Journal of Child Language, 2024
We examined how noun frequency and the typicality of surrounding linguistic context contribute to children's real-time comprehension. Monolingual English-learning toddlers viewed pairs of pictures while hearing sentences with typical or atypical sentence frames ("Look at the…" vs. "Examine the…"), followed by nouns that were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Toddlers, Word Frequency, Sentences
Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattansone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Subject-verb (SV) agreement helps listeners interpret the number condition of ambiguous nouns ("The sheep is/are fat"), yet it remains unclear whether young children use agreement to comprehend newly encountered nouns. Preschoolers and adults completed a forced choice task where sentences contained singular vs. plural copulas…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
Wu, Hongmei; Chitrakara, Nirada – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Due to the fact that both the subject and the topic can occupy the initial position of the sentence, English subject is always deemed as the UNMARKED TOPIC (Lambrecht, 1994), while the topic is not always the subject. In accordance with Rizzi's (1997) topicalization, both the subject and the topicalized constituents can be topics. Many other…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Expository Writing
Sutrisno, Adi – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
Google Translate is a free and practical online translation service that allows millions of people around the globe to translate words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs into an intended target language. However, in 2015, some Google Translate users in Indonesia, filed complaints, asserting that the machine was often inaccurate, speculating that…
Descriptors: Translation, English, Indonesian, Accuracy
Ninio, Anat – First Language, 2019
In children acquiring various languages, the early mastery of determiners strongly predicts syntactic development. What makes determiners important is not yet clear as there is a linguistic controversy regarding their syntactic behaviour. Some consider determiners to be similar to adjectives and to modify common nouns, while others consider the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, English, Nouns
Potter, Christine E.; Fourakis, Eva; Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Lew-Williams, Casey – Developmental Science, 2019
In bilingual language environments, infants and toddlers listen to two separate languages during the same key years that monolingual children listen to just one and bilinguals rarely learn each of their two languages at the same rate. Learning to understand language requires them to cope with challenges not found in monolingual input, notably the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Toddlers, Comprehension, Sentences
Karimi, Hossein; Diaz, Michele; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
We examined whether the position of modifiers in English influences how words are encoded and subsequently retrieved from memory. Compared with premodifiers, postmodifiers might confer more perceptual significance to the associated head nouns, are more consistent with the "given-before-new" information structure, and might also be easier…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Phrase Structure, Nouns
Maqsood, Binish; Saleem, Tahir; Aziz, Asif; Azam, Summiaya – SAGE Open, 2019
The present study aims at establishing grammatical constraints on the borrowing of nouns (Ns) and verbs (Vs) in Urdu and English by adopting Noam Chomsky's Methodological Naturalism within the field of generative grammar as the theoretical framework of the study. For this purpose, the corpus of Pure Urdu and Pure English sentences from textbooks…
Descriptors: Grammar, Urdu, Verbs, Linguistic Borrowing
Lauro, Justin; Schwartz, Ana I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
There are numerous studies demonstrating facilitated processing of cognates relative to noncognates for bilinguals, providing evidence that bilingual lexical access is language nonselective. We tested whether cross-language activation affects comprehension of larger units of meaning, focusing specifically on comprehension of anaphoric references.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Bilingualism, Spanish, Transfer of Training
Liter, Adam; Heffner, Christopher C.; Schmitt, Cristina – Language Learning and Development, 2017
We present an artificial language experiment investigating (i) how speakers of languages such as English with two-way obligatory distinctions between singular and plural learn a system where singular and plural are only optionally marked, and (ii) how learners extend their knowledge of the plural morpheme when under the scope of negation without…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Phonology, Language Acquisition
Rillo, Richard M.; Tonio, Jimmylen Z.; Lucas, Rochelle Irene G. – Online Submission, 2019
When talking to infants, adults, especially mothers, espouse a particular type of speech known as Infant-directed Speech (IDS) or "babytalk" or "babytalking" , which contains a set of specialized speech with simplified grammatical construction; more repetitive; and more grammatical than adult-directed speech. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Infants, Interpersonal Communication
Tang, Ping; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine; Rattanasone, Nan Xu – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a "contrastive context" facilitates the identification of a target referent (speeding up processing), whereas focus used…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Prediction
Romano, Francesco – Second Language Research, 2018
To what extent can second language (L2) speakers acquire a syntactic representation for an L2 structure absent in the first language (L1)? Findings from L2 structural priming studies are in conflict inasmuch as evidence for and against continuity between L1 and L2 sentence production has been shown. Furthermore, previous investigations have not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Chinese, Turkish
Fitton, Lisa; Hoge, Rachel; Petscher, Yaacov; Wood, Carla – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was (a) to examine the underlying components or factor structure of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA; Peña, Gutiérrez-Clellen, Iglesias, Goldstein, & Bedore, 2014) sentence repetition task and (b) to examine the relationship between Spanish-English speaking children's sentence repetition and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English