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Anto, Sylvester Kwabena – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study is descriptive, and it is set out to primarily investigate the use and order of determiners in the Mo/Deg language. The study finds answers to the questions, "What determiner types are there in the Mo/Deg language, and in what order do they collocate with the head of the noun phrase?" Using purposive sampling, the study…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Syntax, African Languages, Nouns
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Gertner, Yael; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2012
Children use syntax to interpret sentences and learn verbs; this is syntactic bootstrapping. The structure-mapping account of early syntactic bootstrapping proposes that a partial representation of sentence structure, the "set of nouns" occurring with the verb, guides initial interpretation and provides an abstract format for new learning. This…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs
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Bavin, Edith L.; Prendergast, Luke A.; Kidd, Evan; Baker, Emma; Dissanayake, Cheryl – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: There is variability in the language of children with autism, even those who are high functioning. However, little is known about how they process language structures in real time, including how they handle potential ambiguity, and whether they follow referential constraints. Previous research with older autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Autism, Comparative Analysis
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Randolph, Patrick T. – ORTESOL Journal, 2015
A key element in vocabulary instruction is to get the students to "feel" the vocabulary and make it a part of their new language identity; that is, helping the students to "own" the terms is a top priority of language instructors. Using verbpathy as a tool meets this goal. The idea of using verbpathy in vocabulary instruction…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Emotional Response, Vocabulary Development
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Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew; Holt, Janet K.; Papastratakos, Theodora; Hsu, Ning; Kubalanza, Mary; McKenna, Megan M. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Purpose: The current study used an intervention design to test the hypothesis that parent input sentences with diverse lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects would accelerate growth in children's sentence diversity. Method: Child growth in third person sentence diversity was modeled from 21-30 months (n = 38) in conversational language samples obtained…
Descriptors: Parents, Hypothesis Testing, Control Groups, Toddlers
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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Falcon, Alberto; Alva-Canto, Elda A. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2013
Grammatical gender embedded in determiners, nouns and adjectives allows indirect and more rapid processing of the referents implied in sentences. However in a language such as Spanish, this useful information cannot be reliably retrieved from a single source of information. Instead, noun gender may be extracted either from phono-morphological,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Morphology (Languages), Sentences
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Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: In recent years there has been significant interest in the differential processing of nouns and verbs in people with aphasia, but more limited consideration about whether the differences have implications for therapy. It remains unclear whether verbs can be treated in a similar way to nouns or should be treated using approaches that…
Descriptors: Therapy, Verbs, Nouns, Aphasia
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Fukumura, Kumiko; van Gompel, Roger P. G. – Cognitive Science, 2012
We report two experiments that investigated the widely held assumption that speakers use the addressee's discourse model when choosing referring expressions (e.g., Ariel, 1990; Chafe, 1994; Givon, 1983; Prince, 1985), by manipulating whether the addressee could hear the immediately preceding linguistic context. Experiment 1 showed that speakers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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DeDe, Gayle – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine whether and when individuals with aphasia and healthy controls use lexical and prosodic information during on-line sentence comprehension. Individuals with aphasia and controls (n = 12 per group) participated in a self-paced listening experiment. The stimuli were early closure sentences, such as "While…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Cues, Verbs
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Childers, Jane B.; Heard, M. Elaine; Ring, Kolette; Pai, Anushka; Sallquist, Julie – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Learning new words involves decoding both how a word fits the current situation and how it could be used in new situations. Three studies explore how two types of cues--sentence structure and the availability of multiple instances--affect children's extensions of nouns and verbs. In each study, 2.5-year-olds heard nouns, verbs, or no new word…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Sentence Structure, Cues, Direct Instruction
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Schweppe, Judith – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
One pronoun production experiment and one pronoun comprehension experiment were performed to investigate the role of grammatical number information in long-distance anaphora, with referent and pronoun either in adjacent sentences or separated by an intervening sentence. The experiments tested the assumption that the influence of grammatical number…
Descriptors: Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Numbers, Number Concepts
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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Gor, Kira – Language Learning, 2014
In order to comprehend speech, listeners have to combine low-level phonetic information about the incoming auditory signal with higher-order contextual information to make a lexical selection. This requires stable phonological categories and unambiguous representations of words in the mental lexicon. Unlike native speakers, second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Phonology
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Jiang, Xiaoming; Zhou, Xiaolin – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Humans have special abilities in processing hierarchical, recursive structures. Here we investigated how an upcoming word embedded in a hierarchical structure is semantically integrated into the prior representation during sentence comprehension. Participants read Chinese sentences with a complex verb argument structure "subject…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Schumacher, Petra B.; Hung, Yu-Chen – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We present three event-related potential studies that investigated the contribution of givenness and position-induced topicality (what a sentence is about) to information processing. The studies compared two types of referential expressions (given and inferred noun phrases (NPs)) in distinct sentential positions. The data revealed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Language Processing
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Kim, Young-Suk; Radach, Ralph; Vorstius, Christian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Parafoveal word processing was examined during Korean reading. Twenty-four native speakers of Korean read sentences in two conditions while their eye movements were being monitored. The boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975) was used to create a mismatch between characters displayed before and after an eye movement contingent display change. In the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Nouns
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