NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 151 to 165 of 327 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Delogu, Francesca; Vespignani, Francesco; Sanford, Anthony J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Intensional verbs like "want" select for clausal complements expressing propositions, though they can be perfectly natural when combined with a direct object. There are two interesting phenomena associated with intensional transitive expressions. First, it has been suggested that their interpretation requires enriched compositional operations,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Human Body, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bergen, Benjamin; Wheeler, Kathryn – Brain and Language, 2010
When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those events. But little is known about exactly what linguistic elements activate modality-specific systems during language processing. While it is known that content words, like…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Grammar
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cacciari, C.; Bolognini, N.; Senna, I.; Pellicciari, M. C.; Miniussi, C.; Papagno, C. – Brain and Language, 2011
We used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to assess whether reading literal, non-literal (i.e., metaphorical, idiomatic) and fictive motion sentences modulates the activity of the motor system. Sentences were divided into three segments visually presented one at a time: the noun phrase, the verb and the final part of the sentence. Single…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Figurative Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hatzidaki, Anna; Branigan, Holly P.; Pickering, Martin J. – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
We report four experiments that examined whether bilinguals' production of one language is affected by the syntactic properties of their other language. Greek-English and English-Greek highly proficient fluent bilinguals produced sentence completions following subject nouns whose translation had either the same or different number. We manipulated…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Bilingualism
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Christianson, Kiel; Luke, Steven G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Three self-paced reading experiments examined the effect of context on interpreting subsequent sentences and in the difficulty of revising initial misinterpretations of subsequent temporarily ambiguous sentences. Target sentences containing noun phrase/sentence (NP/S) coordination ambiguities were preceded by contexts that either did or did not…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Nouns
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
van Heugten, Marieke; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Dutch, unlike English, contains two gender-marked forms of the definite article. Does the presence of multiple definite article forms lead Dutch learners to be delayed relative to English learners in the acquisition of their determiner system? Using the Preferential Looking Procedure, we found that Dutch-learning children aged 1 ; 7 to 2 ; 0 use…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Indo European Languages
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
DeDe, Gayle – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
Two self paced listening experiments examined the role of prosodic phrasing in syntactic ambiguity resolution. In Experiment 1, the stimuli consisted of early closure sentences (e.g., "While the parents watched, the child sang a song.") containing transitive-biased subordinate verbs paired with plausible direct objects or intransitive-biased…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Verbs, Figurative Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Candan, Ayse; Kuntay, Aylin C.; Yeh, Ya-ching; Cheung, Hintat; Wagner, Laura; Naigles, Letitia R. – Cognitive Development, 2012
We compare the processing of transitive sentences in young learners of a strict word order language (English) and two languages that allow noun omissions and many variant word orders: Turkish, a case-marked language, and Mandarin Chinese, a non case-marked language. Children aged 1-3 years listened to simple transitive sentences in the typical…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Word Order
VanDyke, Justine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Adults are able to access semantic and syntactic information rapidly as they hear or read in real-time in order to interpret sentences. Young children, on the other hand, tend to rely on syntactically-based parsing routines, adopting the first noun as the agent of a sentence regardless of plausibility, at least during oral comprehension. Little is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Adults, Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Roberts, Leah; Felser, Claudia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally ambiguous ("garden path") sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self-paced reading, we examined how advanced Greek-speaking learners of English and native speaker controls read sentences containing temporary subject-object…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sagarra, Nuria; Herschensohn, Julia – Language Learning, 2011
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Grammar
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Staub, Adrian; Grant, Margaret; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In this brief rejoinder, we respond to Farmer, Monaghan, Misyak, and Christiansen (2011). We argue that the data still do not support the claim that reading time is affected by the phonological typicality of a word for its part of speech. We also question Farmer et al.'s claim that interleaving syntactic structures in an experiment modifies…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Syntax, Reading, Phonology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wilson, Michael P.; Garnsey, Susan M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Constraint-based lexical models of language processing assume that readers resolve temporary ambiguities by relying on a variety of cues, including particular knowledge of how verbs combine with nouns. Previous experiments have demonstrated verb bias effects only in structurally complex sentences, and have been criticized on the grounds that such…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Verbs, Nouns
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Martin, Randi C.; Crowther, Jason E.; Knight, Meredith; Tamborello, Franklin P., II; Yang, Chin-Lung – Cognition, 2010
Controversy remains as to the scope of advanced planning in language production. Smith and Wheeldon (1999) found significantly longer onset latencies when subjects described moving-picture displays by producing sentences beginning with a complex noun phrase than for matched sentences beginning with a simple noun phrase. While these findings are…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Experiments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Havas, Viktoria; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Clahsen, Harald – Brain and Language, 2012
This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Spanish, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  ...  |  22