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Wang, Chiung-Yao – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of the dissertation is to examine Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of a syntax-dependent phonological rule Tone 3 Sandhi (T3S). A Tone 3 (low dipping tone) is changed to a Tone 2 (mid rising tone) when it is followed by another Tone 3. Application of T3S in fact involves a complex process. In setting up the prosodic domains…
Descriptors: Syntax, Syllables, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Cimpian, Andrei; Meltzer, Trent J.; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2011
Generic sentences (e.g., "Birds lay eggs") convey generalizations about entire categories and may thus be an important source of knowledge for children. However, these sentences cannot be identified by a simple rule, requiring instead the integration of multiple cues. The present studies focused on 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 91) use of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Morphology (Languages)
VanPatten, Bill; Borst, Stefanie – Hispania, 2012
In the present study, we examine the roles of 1) explicit information about language provided to learners prior to treatment and 2) aptitude (specifically grammatical sensitivity) within Processing Instruction. Forty-two learners of Spanish in their third-semester of study were divided into two groups: those who received explicit information (EI)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Grammar, Aptitude Tests
Patson, Nikole D.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
In three eyetracking studies, we investigated the role of conceptual plurality in initial parsing decisions in temporarily ambiguous sentences with reciprocal verbs (e.g., "While the lovers kissed the baby played alone"). We varied the subject of the first clause using three types of plural noun phrases: conjoined noun phrases ("the bride and the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Cognitive Processes
Ogihara, Saeko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is a typological study of verb-final languages, the purpose of which is to examine various grammatical phenomena in verb-final languages to discover whether there are correlations between the final position of the verb and other aspects of grammar. It examines how finality of the verb interacts with argument coding in simple…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Nouns
Staub, Adrian – Cognition, 2010
Speakers are known to make subject-verb agreement errors both when a number-mismatching noun intervenes between the head of the subject phrase and the verb (e.g., "*The key to the cabinets are on the table") and in configurations in which there is a number-mismatching noun that does not intervene (e.g., "*The cabinets that the key open are on the…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
Nottbusch, Guido – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
In this study participants were asked to describe pictured events in one type-written sentence, containing one of two different syntactic structures (subordinated vs. coordinated subject noun phrases). According to the hypothesis, the larger subordinated structure (one noun phrase including a second, subordinated, one) should be cognitively more…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Sentences, Difficulty Level, Phrase Structure
Patson, Nikole D.; Warren, Tessa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
In the current article, we introduce a new methodology for detecting whether a word in a sentence is conceptually represented as plural and use it to shed light on a debate about whether comprehenders interpret singular indefinite noun phrases within a distributed predicate as plural during online reading. Experiment 1 extended a methodology…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns
Bartek, Brian; Lewis, Richard L.; Vasishth, Shravan; Smith, Mason R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Many comprehension theories assert that increasing the distance between elements participating in a linguistic relation (e.g., a verb and a noun phrase argument) increases the difficulty of establishing that relation during on-line comprehension. Such "locality effects" are expected to increase reading times and are thought to reveal properties…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Verbs, Eye Movements
Wheeldon, Linda R.; Smith, Mark C.; Apperly, Ian A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
An online picture description methodology was used to investigate the interaction between lexical and syntactic information in spoken sentence production. In response to arrays of moving pictures, participants generated prepositional sentences, such as "The apple moves towards the dog," as well as coordinate noun phrase sentences, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Priming, Sentences, Sentence Structure
Vanhoutte, Sarah; De Letter, Miet; Corthals, Paul; Van Borsel, John; Santens, Patrick – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The present study examined language production skills in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. A unique cued sentence generation task was created in order to reduce demands on memory and attention. Differences in sentence production abilities according to disease severity and cognitive impairments were assessed. Language samples were obtained from 20…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Tests, Diseases, Semantics
Staub, Adrian – Cognition, 2010
It is well known that sentences containing object-extracted relative clauses (e.g., "The reporter that the senator attacked admitted the error") are more difficult to comprehend than sentences containing subject-extracted relative clauses (e.g., "The reporter that attacked the senator admitted the error"). Two major accounts of this phenomenon…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Verbs, Eye Movements
Urbach, Thomas P.; Kutas, Marta – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Event-related brain potentials were recorded during RSVP reading to test the hypothesis that quantifier expressions are incrementally interpreted fully and immediately. In sentences tapping general knowledge ("Farmers grow crops/worms as their primary source of income"), Experiment 1 found larger N400s for atypical ("worms") than typical objects…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests
Allum, Paul H.; Wheeldon, L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Building on P. H. Allum and L. Wheeldon (2007), the authors conducted 5 experiments to investigate the scope of lexical access during spoken sentence production in Japanese and English. Speakers described pairs of pictured objects, and on critical trials, 1 object was previewed. In Japanese, sentence onset is speeded by the preview of each of the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Speech, Japanese
Tabossi, P.; Wolf, K.; Koterle, S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
An influential theory posits that the syntactic properties of idioms are idiosyncratic and encoded in the mental lexicon in "superlemmas". It follows that experience with an idiom is necessary in order to judge the acceptability of syntactic operations on that idiom. To test these claims, Experiment 1 explored the acceptability of sentences…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Syntax