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Panagiota Margaza; Anna Gavarró – Second Language Research, 2024
Greek and Spanish are two languages that display a similar subject distribution with unergative/unaccusative verbs, but different word orders with focused subjects (SV in Greek and VS in Spanish). Here we consider subject-verb word order in second language (L2) Greek and L2 Spanish in order to test the Interface Hypothesis (IH). To this end, we…
Descriptors: Greek, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
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Mariana Mejia Turnbull; Michelle MacRoy-Higgings; Brett A. Martin – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the linguistic content of the Spanish HINT and the Spanish AzBio sentence tests. The results revealed that the Spanish AzBio is linguistically more complex as compared with the Spanish HINT in terms of sentence length, complexity, and grammatical structure.
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Spanish, Adults, Sentences
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Giancaspro, David; Perez-Cortes, Silvia; Higdon, Josh – Language Learning, 2022
Previous research indicates that heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce both subjunctive and indicative mood in expected subjunctive contexts. The present study sheds new light on this pattern by testing the effects of morphological regularity on HSs' mood production in volitional contexts, where Spanish-dominant speakers (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
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Vela-Candelas, Juan; Català, Natàlia; Demestre, Josep – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Some theories of sentence processing make a distinction between two kinds of meaning: a linguistic meaning encoded at the lexicon (i.e., selectional restrictions), and an extralinguistic knowledge derived from our everyday experiences (i.e., world knowledge). According to such theories, the former meaning is privileged over the latter in terms of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Prediction, Language Processing, Sentences
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Angela Gardner; Karen Lichtman – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study investigated how questioning strategies impact language learner performance. Specifically, it explored how questioning strategies influence (i) verb production and subject-verb agreement in the target language, and (ii) learner confidence in completing tasks without translation software. Sixty-eight novice language learners enrolled in…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Spanish, High School Students
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Snyder, William – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Three case-studies, using longitudinal records of children's spontaneous speech, illustrate what happens when a child's syntax changes. The first, examining acquisition of English verb-particle constructions, shows a near-total absence of commission errors. The second, examining acquisition of prepositional questions in English or Spanish, shows…
Descriptors: Child Language, Syntax, Language Acquisition, English
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Fazila Artykbayeva; Aygul Spatay; Abdurassul Raimov; Sholpan Bakirova; Maira Taiteliyeva – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to consider the core of the mental lexicon of the Kazakh language based on the analysis of associative dictionaries, to determine the basic lexico-semantic groups of words and to compare the basic lexical layer with value categories. This study uses the following methods of linguocultural, comparative,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Turkic Languages, Nouns
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Daniel Freudenthal; Fernand Gobet; Julian M. Pine – Language Learning, 2024
This study extended an existing crosslinguistic model of verb-marking errors in children's early multiword speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high proportion of forms in the input. Our simulations showed that the resulting model not only provides a better…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Verbs
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Biondo, Nicoletta; Soilemezidi, Marielena; Mancini, Simona – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The ability to think about nonpresent time is a crucial aspect of human cognition. Both the past and future imply a temporal displacement of an event outside the "now." They also intrinsically differ: The past refers to inalterable events; the future to alterable events, to possible worlds. Are the past and future processed similarly or…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Time, Language Processing, Sentences
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Santucho, Florencia B.; Arce-Trigatti, Andrea – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2021
A mindful teaching strategy helped improve the language and writing skills of students in a public secondary school in a rural province of Argentina. The authors share how they brought about this development.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Grammar, Native Language Instruction, Spanish
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Ristic, Bojana; Mancini, Simona; Molinaro, Nicola; Staub, Adrian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Although research in sentence comprehension has suggested that processing long-distance dependencies involves maintenance between the elements that form the dependency, studies on maintenance of long-distance subject-verb (SV) dependencies are scarce. The few relevant studies have delivered mixed results using self-paced reading or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Lares, Erwin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Verb-object idioms such as "kick the bucket" are very common in Spanish. This research set out to find what systematic differences exist between the literal and idiomatic interpretations of idioms of this kind from three different experimental perspectives: production, perception, and acceptability judgments focused on verbal aspect.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Spanish, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Fernández Cuenca, Sara; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study investigated the second language processing of grammatical mood in Spanish. Eye-movement data from a group of advanced proficiency second language users revealed nativelike processing with irregular verb stimuli but not with regular verb stimuli. A comparison group of native speakers showed the expected effect with both types of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Manuel F. Pulido – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Usage-based theory has proposed that learning of linguistic constructions is facilitated by input that contains few high-frequency exemplars, in what is known as a skewed (or Zipfian) input distribution. Early empirical work provided support to this idea, but subsequent L2 research has provided mixed findings. However, previous approaches have not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
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Nuria Sagarra; Laura Fernández-Arroyo; Cristina Lozano-Argüelles; Joseph V. Casillas – Language Learning, 2024
We investigated the role of cue weighting, second language (L2) proficiency, and L2 daily exposure in L2 learning of suprasegmentals different from the first language (L1), using eye-tracking. Spanish monolinguals, English-Spanish learners, and Mandarin--Spanish learners saw a paroxytone and an oxytone verb (e.g., "FIRma-firMÓ"…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Suprasegmentals
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