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Turco, Giuseppina; Dimroth, Christine; Braun, Bettina – Second Language Research, 2015
We investigated the second language (L2) acquisition of pragmatic categories that are not as consistently and frequently encoded in the L2 than in the first language (L1). Experiment 1 showed that Italian speakers linguistically highlighted affirmative polarity contrast (e.g. "The child ate the candies" following after "The child…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Italian
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Arunachalam, Sudha; Leddon, Erin M.; Song, Hyun-joo; Lee, Yoonha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2013
Research on early word learning reveals that verbs present a unique challenge. While English-acquiring 24-month-olds can learn novel verbs and extend them to new scenes, they perform better in rich linguistic contexts (when novel verbs appear with lexicalized noun phrases naming the event participants) than in sparser linguistic contexts…
Descriptors: Verbs, Korean, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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Hamlin, J. Kiley; Ullman, Tomer; Tenenbaum, Josh; Goodman, Noah; Baker, Chris – Developmental Science, 2013
Evaluating individuals based on their pro- and anti-social behaviors is fundamental to successful human interaction. Recent research suggests that even preverbal infants engage in social evaluation; however, it remains an open question whether infants' judgments are driven uniquely by an analysis of the mental states that motivate others' helpful…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Bayesian Statistics, Infant Behavior
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Gómez Ferragud, Carlos B.; Solaz-Portolés, Joan Josep; Sanjosé, Vicente – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
We conducted a qualitative research of case studies based on think-aloud protocols. The aim was to carry out in-depth analyse secondary students' cognitive difficulties appearing in early stages of transfer processes in problem-solving. The task was to relate several source problems to a target problem, in order to solve it effectively. Source and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Units of Study, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking
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Calvert, Megan; Sheen, Younghee – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The creation, implementation, and evaluation of language learning tasks remain a challenge for many teachers, especially those with limited experience with using tasks in their teaching. This action-research study reports on one teacher's experience of developing, implementing, critically reflecting on, and modifying a language learning task…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Reggev, Niv; Hassin, Ran R.; Maril, Anat – Cognition, 2012
Fluency, the subjective experience of ease associated with information processing, has been shown to affect a host of judgments. Previous research has typically focused on specific factors that affect the use of a single, specific fluency source. In the present study we examine how cognitive mindsets, or processing modes, moderate fluency…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Reading Fluency
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van Duijvenbode, Neomi; Didden, Robert; Bloemsaat, Gijs; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The present study focused on the first step in developing a cue reactivity task for studying cognitive biases in individuals with mild to borderline intellectual disability (ID) and alcohol use-related problems: the standardization of pictorial stimuli. Participants (N = 40), both with and without a history of alcohol use-related problems and…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Familiarity, Drinking, Statistical Significance
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Parks, Colleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Research examining the importance of surface-level information to familiarity in recognition memory tasks is mixed: Sometimes it affects recognition and sometimes it does not. One potential explanation of the inconsistent findings comes from the ideas of dual process theory of recognition and the transfer-appropriate processing framework, which…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Memory, Familiarity, Perception
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Horst, Jessica S.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Kucker, Sarah C.; McMurray, Bob – Cognition, 2011
Determining the referent of a novel name is a critical task for young language learners. The majority of studies on children's referent selection focus on manipulating the sources of information (linguistic, contextual and pragmatic) that children can use to solve the referent mapping problem. Here, we take a step back and explore how children's…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Novels, Language Acquisition
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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A.; Aguado-Servín, Oscar A. – First Language, 2014
Infants across cultures need to identify the characteristics of their native languages in order to become competent speakers. The means by which Spanish-speaking children learn to produce number-gender linguistic markers has not been sufficiently investigated. Thirty-eight three-year-olds were tested in Berko-like production tasks, in which they…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Morphology (Languages), Native Language, Familiarity
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Terhune, N. M. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This paper reports on students' use of face-to-face synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) for oral language learning. It describes a university English language class designed to prepare students for overseas study in which a Skype-based English conversation school was piloted. The study offers analysis of how students used the CMC…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Oral Language
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Kucker, Sarah C.; Samuelson, Larissa K. – Infancy, 2012
Recent research demonstrated that although 24-month-old infants do well on the initial pairing of a novel word and novel object in fast-mapping tasks, they are unable to retain the mapping after a 5 min delay. The current study examines the role of familiarity with the objects and words on infants' ability to bridge between the initial fast…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Language Acquisition
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Oztekin, Ilke; Gungor, Nur Zeynep; Badre, David – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The response-signal speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT) procedure was used to provide an in-depth investigation of the impact of aging on the dynamics of short-term memory retrieval. Young and older adults studied sequentially presented 3-item lists, immediately followed by a recognition probe. Analyses of composite list and serial position SAT…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Older Adults, Serial Ordering, Short Term Memory
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Danovitch, Judith H.; Alzahabi, Reem – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Although children are often exposed to technological devices early in life, little is known about how they evaluate these novel sources of information. In two experiments, children aged 3, 4, and 5 years old ("n" = 92) were presented with accurate and inaccurate computer informants, and they subsequently relied on information provided by…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Young Children, Information Sources, Preferences
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Boyer, Ty W.; Pan, J. Samantha; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Cognition, 2011
Recent research suggests that 9-month-old infants tested in a modified version of the A-not-B search task covertly imitate actions performed by the experimenter. The current study examines whether infants also simulate actions performed by mechanical devices, and whether this varies with whether or not they have been familiarized with the devices…
Descriptors: Infants, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Simulation
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