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Evans, Mary Ann; Saint-Aubin, Jean – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
When preschoolers listen to storybooks, are their eye movements related to their vocabulary acquisition in this context? This study addressed this question with 36 four-year-old French-speaking participants by assessing their general receptive vocabulary knowledge and knowledge of low-frequency words in 3 storybooks. These books were read verbatim…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Preschool Children
Ramey, Christopher H.; Chrysikou, Evangelia G.; Reilly, Jamie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Word learning is a lifelong activity constrained by cognitive biases that people possess at particular points in development. Age of acquisition (AoA) is a psycholinguistic variable that may prove useful toward gauging the relative weighting of different phonological, semantic, and morphological factors at different phases of language acquisition…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Nouns, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics
Bartlett, Laura B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This thesis investigates the syntactic status of adjectives in Spanish through a crossdisciplinary perspective, incorporating methodologies from both theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistics, specifically, event-related potentials (ERPs). It presents conflicting theories about the syntax of adjectives and explores the ways that the processing…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Syntax, Spanish, Neurolinguistics
Gagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Past research has found that the judged likelihood of properties of modified nouns (baby ducks have webbed feet) is reduced relative to unmodified nouns (ducks have webbed feet). Experiments 1-3 replicate the modification effect and demonstrate that this effect is obtained when participants make dichotomous decisions about the truth of such…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Inferences, Concept Mapping, Nouns
Katerelos, Marina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – Infancy, 2011
This study was designed to examine whether infants acquiring languages that place a differential emphasis on nouns and verbs, focus their attention on motions or objects in the presence of a novel word. An infant-controlled habituation paradigm was used to teach 18- to 20-month-old English-, French-, and Japanese-speaking infants' novel words for…
Descriptors: Infants, English, French, Japanese
Gillespie, Maureen; Pearlmutter, Neal J. – Cognition, 2011
Two subject-verb agreement error elicitation studies tested the hierarchical feature-passing account of agreement computation in production and three timing-based alternatives: linear distance to the head noun, semantic integration, and a combined effect of both (a scope of planning account). In Experiment 1, participants completed subject noun…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
Reading Teacher, 2011
This article describes Pop in a Popper, an effective lesson for teaching students how to choose and use words to give their writing fluency and flair. Pop in a Popper introduces the appositive: a group of words inserted after a noun to modify that noun. In simplest terms, writers pop this group of words into a sentence to tell more about a noun.…
Descriptors: Nouns, Sentences, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
Crepaldi, Davide; Berlingeri, Manuela; Paulesu, Eraldo; Luzzatti, Claudio – Brain and Language, 2011
It is generally held that noun processing is specifically sub-served by temporal areas, while the neural underpinnings of verb processing are located in the frontal lobe. However, this view is now challenged by a significant body of evidence accumulated over the years. Moreover, the results obtained so far on the neural implementation of noun and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Grammar, Language Processing
Young, Kay – American Journal of Play, 2012
This article asks why adults play dress-up and investigates the role of object play in the making of magical thinking and the reforming of adult identity. The author looks at a wide spectrum of narratives and their genres--the fairy tale "Cinderella," the film comedy "Some Like it Hot", the epistolary novel "Pamela", the film melodrama "Now,…
Descriptors: Play, Fairy Tales, Females, Adults
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
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This study assessed knowledge of numerically quantified English sentences in two learner populations--second language (L2) learners and deaf learners--whose acquisition of English occurs under conditions of restricted access to the target language input. Under the experimental test conditions, interlanguage parallels were predicted to arise from…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Interlanguage
Tribushinina, Elena; Dubinkina, Elena – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
Research on specific language impairment (SLI) has primarily focused on the acquisition of nouns and verbs. Less attention has been given to other content-word classes, such as adjectives and adverbs. This article investigates adjective production by 7- to 10-year-old Russian-speaking children with SLI and their typically developing (TD) peers and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nouns, Language Impairments, Error Analysis (Language)
Gough, Patricia M.; Riggio, Lucia; Chersi, Fabian; Sato, Marc; Fogassi, Leonardo; Buccino, Giovanni – Neuropsychologia, 2012
While increasing evidence points to a critical role for the motor system in language processing, the focus of previous work has been on the linguistic category of verbs. Here we tested whether nouns are effective in modulating the motor system and further whether different kinds of nouns--those referring to artifacts or natural items, and items…
Descriptors: Evidence, Science Activities, Nouns, Neurology
Giovanello, Kelly S.; Schacter, Daniel L. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012
Neuroimaging studies of episodic memory in young adults demonstrate greater functional neural activity in ventrolateral pFC and hippocampus during retrieval of relational information as compared with item information. We tested the hypothesis that healthy older adults--individuals who exhibit behavioral declines in relational memory--would show…
Descriptors: Nouns, Young Adults, Older Adults, Memory
Cutting, Joan – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
This study examined abstracts for a British Association for Applied Linguistics conference and a Sociolinguistics Symposium, to define the genre of conference abstracts in terms of vague language, specifically universal general nouns (e.g. people) and research general nouns (e.g. results), and to discover if the language used reflected the level…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Conferences (Gatherings), Nouns