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Michael, Sarah E.; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Newman, Rochelle – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: Expressive syntax is a particular area of difficulty for individuals with Down syndrome (DS). In order to better understand the basis for sentence formulation deficits often observed in children and adults with DS, the authors explored the use and comprehension of verbs differing in argument structure. Method: The authors examined verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Comprehension, Children, Adults
Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Pickering, Martin J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Research on word production in bilinguals has often shown an advantage for cognate words. According to some accounts, this cognate effect is caused by feedback from a level that represents information about phonemes (or graphemes) to a level concerned with the word. In order to investigate whether phonological feedback influences the selection of…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Phonemes, Nouns
Cohn, Neil; Paczynski, Martin; Jackendoff, Ray; Holcomb, Phillip J.; Kuperberg, Gina R. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
Just as syntax differentiates coherent sentences from scrambled word strings, the comprehension of sequential images must also use a cognitive system to distinguish coherent narrative sequences from random strings of images. We conducted experiments analogous to two classic studies of language processing to examine the contributions of narrative…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Syntax, Language Processing
Roll, Mikael; Horne, Merle; Lindgren, Magnus – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Right-edge boundary tones have earlier been found to restrict syntactic processing by closing a clause for further integration of incoming words. The role of left-edge intonation, however, has received little attention to date. We show that Swedish left-edge boundary tones selectively facilitate the on-line processing of main clauses, the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Intonation, Swedish
Blom, Elma; Baayen, Harald R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
It has been argued that children learning a second language (L2) omit agreement inflection because of communication demands. The conclusion of these studies is that L2 children know the morphological and syntactic properties of agreement inflection, but sometimes insert an inflectional default form (i.e., the bare verb) in production. The present…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Child Language, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages
Yamangil, Elif – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The past two decades have shown an unexpected effectiveness of "Web-scale" data in natural language processing. Even the simplest models, when paired with unprecedented amounts of unstructured and unlabeled Web data, have been shown to outperform sophisticated ones. It has been argued that the effectiveness of Web-scale data has…
Descriptors: Models, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Bayesian Statistics
Tanaka, Mikihiro N.; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Two experiments using a sentence recall task tested the effect of animacy on syntactic processing in Japanese sentence production. Experiment 1 and 2 showed that when Japanese native speakers recalled transitive sentences, they were more likely to assign animate entities earlier positions in the sentence than inanimate entities. In addition,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Word Order, Native Speakers
Kaplan, Dafna; Berman, Ruth – First Language, 2015
The study examined linguistic flexibility of Hebrew-speaking students from middle childhood to adolescence compared with adults on tasks requiring them to alternate between different versions of varied linguistic stimuli. Lexical flexibility was tested by constructing different words with a shared root and a shared prosodic template;…
Descriptors: Intonation, Syntax, Suprasegmentals, Sentence Structure
Ediger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 2012
When being a student in grade school as well as in high school (1934-1946), grammar was heavily emphasized in English/language arts classes, particularly in grades four through the senior year in high school. Evidently, teachers and school administrators then saw a theoretical way to assist pupils in writing achievement. Grammar and writing were…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, English Instruction, Grammar, Writing Instruction
Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Van Horne, Amanda J. Owen; Lin, Shanju – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
This study investigated the use of cognitive state verbs (CSVs) and complement clauses in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. In Study 1, conversational samples from 23 children with SLI (M = 6;2), 24 age-matched TD children (M = 6;2) and 21 vocabulary-matched TD children (M = 4;9) were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Semantics, Syntax
Lomashvili, Leila – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The argument structure of complex predicates such as causatives and applicatives is closely associated with the functional heads that introduce core and non-core arguments: Voice, causative and applicative. These elements merge in a sentence structure at various cycles of derivation and take complements whose "size" accounts for the meaning and…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Morphology (Languages), Languages, Syntax
Honea, Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research that examines diachronic change and modality posit that modal verbs follow certain universal paths of development (e.g. Cornillie, 2007; Bybee & Fleischman, 1995; Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca, 1994). The present study examines the development of Spanish modality in Mexico through the use of multivariate analyses, relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Kochovska, Slavica – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the patterning of Macedonian direct object DPs with respect to clitic pronouns. The occurrence of clitics with direct objects in Macedonian varies along two dimensions, the type of DP and the position of DP. Two broad classes are considered, regular and wh DPs, and positions both within IP and at the left periphery.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Intervention, Syntax
del Rio, David; Maestu, Fernando; Lopez-Higes, Ramon; Moratti, Stephan; Gutierrez, Ricardo; Maestu, Ceferino; del-Pozo, Francisco – Neuropsychologia, 2011
During sentence processing there is a preference to treat the first noun phrase found as the subject and agent, unless marked the other way. This preference would lead to a conflict in thematic role assignment when the syntactic structure conforms to a non-canonical object-before-subject pattern. Left perisylvian and fronto-parietal brain networks…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Conflict