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Le Normand, Marie-Thérèse; Thai-Van, Hung – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: One of the most consistent findings reported in the paediatric cochlear implant (CI) literature is the heterogeneity of language performance observed more in grammatical morphology than in lexicon or pragmatics. As most of the corpus studies addressing these issues have been conducted in English, it is unclear whether their results can…
Descriptors: Grammar, Assistive Technology, French, Language Acquisition
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Lin Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Based on the bilingual children's and adults' code-switching (CS) dependency treebanks, this paper investigates the syntactic features and pragmatic functions of the Chinese-English bilingual children's CS and compares them with bilingual adults'. It is mainly found that (1) As to the bilingual children, the mixed sentences present the longest…
Descriptors: Syntax, Pragmatics, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language)
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Westera, Matthijs; Gupta, Abhijeet; Boleda, Gemma; Padó, Sebastian – Cognitive Science, 2021
Cognitive scientists have long used distributional semantic representations of categories. The predominant approach uses distributional representations of category-denoting nouns, such as "city" for the category city. We propose a novel scheme that represents categories as prototypes over representations of names of its members, such as…
Descriptors: Classification, Models, Nouns, Cognitive Processes
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Nateethorn Narkprom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Through consultations with the online version of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this study focuses on distinguishing between the two synonymous verbs "restrict" and "constrain," both part of Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, in terms of formality…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Dictionaries, English
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Marisa Casillas; Ruthe Foushee; Juan Méndez Girón; Gilles Polian; Penelope Brown – First Language, 2024
This study examines whether children acquiring Tseltal (Mayan) demonstrate a noun bias -- an overrepresentation of nouns in their early vocabularies. Nouns, specifically concrete and animate nouns, are argued to universally predominate in children's early vocabularies because their referents are naturally available as bounded concepts to which…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Language Acquisition, Nouns, Mayan Languages
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Filip Nenadic; Ryan G. Podlubny; Daniel Schmidtke; Matthew C. Kelley; Benjamin V. Tucker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of "semantic richness" in auditory lexical decision. Study 1 recreated an experiment investigating semantic richness effects…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Word Recognition, Semantics, Auditory Stimuli
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Yanxiao Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
The article revisits the canonical (Dem>Num>A>N) and non-canonical (A>Dem>Num>N & Dem>A>Num>N) prenominal patterns in Mandarin Chinese, from the perspective of the Labeling Algorithm. It shows that the syntactic distribution of adjectives are different, depending on the attributive-predicative sources and the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Form Classes (Languages)
Chi Dat Lam – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In everyday life, humans rely on working memory (WM) processes to make sense of relationships between linguistic elements that are not linearly adjacent. For example, to understand the sentence "The dog that the cat chased is cute," we encode the referent "the dog" into WM, maintain and retrieve it after reading the verb…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Sentence Structure, Reading Comprehension
Naomi Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is about the learnability of different generative, Separationist approaches to nominal morphosyntax. The core of my investigation is number, gender, and declension class, as manifested across nouns, adnominals (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, and quantifiers), and articles. An extreme position would require that all of…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Patterns
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Laura Durston; Michael T. Clarke; Gloria Soto – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
The relationships between the use of nouns and verbs, and other word classes have been well established in the typical language development literature. However, questions remain as to whether the same relationships are seen in the language use of individuals who use graphic symbol-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The aim of…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Kimberly Ofori-Sanzo; Leah Geer; Kinya Embry – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This case study describes the use of a syntax intervention with two deaf children who did not acquire a complete first language (L1) from birth. It looks specifically at their ability to produce subject-verb-object (SVO) sentence structure in American Sign Language (ASL) after receiving intervention. This was an exploratory case study in which…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Syntax, American Sign Language
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Joubran-Awadie, Nancy; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin – First Language, 2023
When the written language that children learn to read and write is distinct from the oral language they acquired as their mother tongue, they may encounter substantial challenges. The linguistic distance between two varieties of the same language could have an impact on the literacy acquisition journey. The present study focuses on Arabic, a…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Morphemes, Standard Spoken Usage
John Duff – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language comprehension requires a complex series of decisions under uncertainty. This is especially obvious when one string may have multiple different interpretations, whether due to lexical ambiguity, or the potential for an inference beyond literal content. This dissertation profiles how the human system for language comprehension times those…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Ambiguity (Semantics), Decision Making, Reading Comprehension
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Thomas Günther; Annika Kirschenkern; Axel Mayer; Frederike Steinke; Jürgen Cholewa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Many models of language comprehension assume that listeners predict the continuation of an incoming linguistic stimulus immediately after its onset, based on only partial linguistic and contextual information. Their related developmental models try to determine which cues (e.g., semantic or morphosyntactic) trigger such prediction, and to…
Descriptors: German, Eye Movements, Decoding (Reading), Nouns
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Nikole D. Patson; Tessa Warren; Fabian Hurler; Barbara Kaup – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
To develop theories of how comprehenders extract the message from a linguistic stream, it is critical to understand how they conceptually represent referents. The experiments reported here focus on singular collective nouns (e.g., "committee," "team"), which introduce a single group into the discourse and test whether they…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Grammar, Spatial Ability
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