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Rillo, Richard M.; Tonio, Jimmylen Z.; Lucas, Rochelle Irene G. – Online Submission, 2019
When talking to infants, adults, especially mothers, espouse a particular type of speech known as Infant-directed Speech (IDS) or "babytalk" or "babytalking" , which contains a set of specialized speech with simplified grammatical construction; more repetitive; and more grammatical than adult-directed speech. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Infants, Interpersonal Communication
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Guo, Ling-Yu; Schneider, Phyllis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the finite verb morphology composite (FVMC), number of errors per C-unit (Errors/CU), and percent grammatical C-units (PGCUs) in differentiating school-aged children with language impairment (LI) and those with typical language development (TL). Method: Participants were 61 six-year-olds (50 TL, 11…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Morphemes, Grammar, Narration
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Witzel, Jeffrey; Witzel, Naoko – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study investigates preverbal structural and semantic processing in Japanese, a head-final language, using the maze task. Two sentence types were tested--simple scrambled sentences (Experiment 1) and control sentences (Experiment 2). Experiment 1 showed that even for simple, mono-clausal Japanese sentences, (1) there are online processing…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Processing, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Rispoli, Matthew – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article investigates the relationship between third person singular present tense agreement morphemes, copula "is" and verb-"s", at 2;00 and 2;03. Language samples from 60 children at 2;00 were analyzed for the productivity of copula "is" as measured by the number of different morphemes preceding "is"…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Young Children, Vocabulary
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Al Deeky, Mahmoud – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This research deals with the verb "qara'a" (read) and with what is derived from or built on in Qur'an and pre Islam poetry. The research stems from the assumption that this item (read) did not appear in pre-Islam Arabic in the meaning agreed upon regarding the concept of reading a written text, and what is stated in the Qur'an regarding…
Descriptors: Poetry, Verbs, Semitic Languages, Discourse Analysis
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de Carvalho, Alex; Dautriche, Isabelle; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2016
Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether young children are able to take into account phrasal prosody when computing the syntactic structure of a sentence. Pairs of French noun/verb homophones were selected to create locally ambiguous sentences (["la petite 'ferme'"] ["est très jolie"] "the small farm is very…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Syntax, Sentences, French
Selvanathan, Nagarajan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this dissertation, I investigate specificational copular clauses (Higgins 1973). My aim is to not only propose an analysis for how such specificational copular clauses are derived but also to use such constructions as a testing ground for evaluating and/ or revising different aspects of linguistic theory. The language I primarily use towards…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Contrastive Linguistics
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Hartshorne, Joshua K.; Pogue, Amanda; Snedeker, Jesse – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Famously, "dog bites man" is trivia whereas "man bites dog" is news. This illustrates not just a fact about the world but about language: to know who did what to whom, we must correctly identify the mapping between semantic role and syntactic position. These mappings are typically predictable, and previous work demonstrates…
Descriptors: Child Language, Verbs, Psychological Patterns, Semantics
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Paciorek, Albertyna; Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
Previous studies of semantic implicit learning in language have only examined learning grammatical form-meaning connections in which learning could have been supported by prior linguistic knowledge. In this study we target the domain of verb meaning, specifically semantic preferences regarding novel verbs (e.g., the preference for a novel verb to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reaction Time, Verbs, Nouns
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Newman, Daniel S.; Guiney, Meaghan C.; Barrett, Courtenay A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
This study was an exploration of school consultation interactions between instructional consultants and consultees. Of specific interest was how consultants (n = 18) and consultees (n = 18) used verb tense and emotion words during the problem identification and analysis instructional consultation stage, similarities and differences in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Interpersonal Communication, Counseling Services, School Counseling
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Hsu, Ning; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The contribution of parent input to children's subsequent expressive verb diversity was explored in twenty typically developing toddlers with small verb lexicons. Child developmental factors and parent input measures (i.e. verb quantity, verb diversity, and verb-related structural cues) at age 1;9 were examined as potential predictors of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Jessen, Anna; Festman, Julia; Boxell, Oliver; Felser, Claudia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
We examined native and non-native English speakers' processing of indirect object "wh"-dependencies using a filled-gap paradigm while recording event-related potentials (ERPs). The non-native group was comprised of native German-speaking, proficient non-native speakers of English. Both participant groups showed evidence of linking…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Non English Speaking, Comparative Analysis
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Nagao, Akiko – TESL-EJ, 2022
This mixed-methods study explored the effects of employing a genre-based approach (GBA) to descriptive report writing on the understanding of text structure and ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings among Japanese university students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) over a 15-week course divided into three units. Applied within a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Literary Genres, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kubota, Maki; Chondrogianni, Vicky; Clark, Adam Scott; Rothman, Jason – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bilingualism, Japanese, English (Second Language)
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Alqahtani, Faisal M. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The current study is motivated by the dearth of studies regarding English translation students' grammatical and sociocultural competencies and their relationship with their Grade Point Averages (GPAs). To fill this gap, this study sought to find if there is a statistically significant relationship between the respondents' GPAs and their levels of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Translation, Grade Point Average, Morphemes
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