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Sia, Ming Yean; Mayor, Julien – Child Development, 2021
Children employ multiple cues to identify the referent of a novel word. Novel words are often embedded in sentences and children have been shown to use syntactic cues to differentiate between types of words (adjective vs. nouns) and between types of nouns (count vs. mass nouns). In this study, we show that children learning Malay (N = 67), a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Cues, Vocabulary Development
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Chen, Zhong; Hale, John T. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Information-theoretic complexity metrics, such as Surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and Entropy Reduction (Hale, 2003), are linking hypotheses that bridge theorized expectations about sentences and observed processing difficulty in comprehension. These expectations can be viewed as syntactic derivations constrained by a grammar. However, this…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Phrase Structure, Nouns
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Hirayama, Manami; Colantoni, Laura; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Suprasegmentals, Cognitive Processes
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Marya, Videsha; Frampton, Sarah; Shillingsburg, Alice – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2021
Research has shown that training diagonal targets in a matrix may result in correct responses to the nondiagonal targets within the same matrix and novel targets from a separate matrix. This study replicated prior research using matrix training to teach tact noun-verb combinations to 3 male participants with autism who use a speech generating…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Males, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Liubov Darzhinova; Zoe Pei-sui Luk – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The study tested how the Recency Preference and Predicate Proximity model (Gibson et al. in Cognition 59(1):23-59, 1996, https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1016/0010-0277(88)90004-2) plays out by examining the attachment preferences of native Russian speakers when processing locally ambiguous participial relative clause sentences with three potential NP…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Russian, Language Processing
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Adam Dabrowski; Stuart McLean; Christopher Nicklin – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Three modes of deliberate vocabulary study were investigated to determine how well they assisted learners' recall of the meaning of target concrete nouns. Two modes of tablet-based augmented reality, one context-independent (AR1) and one context-dependent (AR2), were compared with each other and with paper-based word cards (WC) in the deliberate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Nouns, Tablet Computers, Computer Simulation
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Gulgowski, Piotr; Blaszczak, Joanna – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
The number meaning of grammatically plural nouns is to some extent context sensitive. In negative sentences, plural nouns typically receive an inclusive reading referring to any number of individuals (one or many). This contrasts with their more frequent exclusive reading referring to a group of two or more individuals. The present study…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Nouns, Polish, Psycholinguistics
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2020
The use of present and past participles and gerunds was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's teaching experience, and extensive review of different English grammar books, reference books, magazines, newspapers, books, English dictionaries, and online articles, in order for English language…
Descriptors: Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Nouns
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King, Daniel; Gentner, Dedre – Cognitive Science, 2022
This paper explores the processes underlying verb metaphoric extension. Work on metaphor processing has largely focused on noun metaphor, despite evidence that verb metaphor is more common. Across three experiments, we collected paraphrases of simple intransitive sentences varying in semantic strain--for example, "The motor complained"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Figurative Language, Phrase Structure
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Eroglu, Süleyman; Alabay, Sercan; Keklik, Hakan – International Education Studies, 2022
An important part of the grammatical proficiency of students learning Turkish as a foreign language is the use of verb complements in terms of case suffixes used with verbs. The suffixes that determine the relations between nouns and verbs that make up the two main word categories of Turkish are case suffixes. Noun case suffixes, whose main…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Suffixes
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Ahn, Dorothy; Snedeker, Jesse – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Korean is a classifier language in which bare nouns are not obligatorily number-marked. Children learning other classifier languages like Japanese and Mandarin are late in learning the plural morpheme. In this paper, we present two datasets that suggest that Korean plural marker "-tul" is acquired much earlier, in contrast to what has…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Korean, Nouns, Toddlers
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Yao, Panpan; Alkhammash, Reem; Li, Xingshan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We aimed to tackle the question about the time course of plausibility effect in on-line processing of Chinese nouns in temporarily ambiguous structures, and whether L2ers can immediately use the plausibility information generated from classifier-noun associations in analyzing ambiguous structures. Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Reading Processes, Nouns
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Reijnierse, W. Gudrun; Burgers, Christian; Bolognesi, Marianna; Krennmayr, Tina – Cognitive Science, 2019
Concreteness ratings are frequently used in a variety of disciplines to operationalize differences between concrete and abstract words and concepts. However, most ratings studies present items in isolation, thereby overlooking the potential polysemy of words. Consequently, ratings for polysemous words may be conflated, causing a threat to the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, English, Figurative Language
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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Duaa Abu Elhija; Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines whether differences in acquisition exist among the inflectional constructions of number, gender, possessive pronouns, and tense. Moreover, the study investigates whether these inflectional patterns develop with age. Method: The participants were 1,020 Arabic-speaking kindergartners from K2 and K3. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Kindergarten
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Bénédicte Grandon; Marcel Schlechtweg; Esther Ruigendijk – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The ability to process plural marking of nouns is acquired early: at a very young age, children are able to understand if a noun represents one item or more than one. However, little is known about how the segmental characteristics of plural marking are used in this process. Using eye-tracking, we aim at understanding how five to twelve-year old…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Nouns
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