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Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Understanding language requires the ability to compose the meanings of words into phrase and sentence meanings. Formal theories in semantics have framed the hypothesis that all instances of meaning composition, irrespective of the syntactic and semantic properties of the expressions involved, boil down to a unique formal operation, that is, the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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Mushait, Saud; Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This study aims at investigating how borrowed nouns from English are inflected for plural and gender in Colloquial Saudi Arabic (CSA). The attempt is also made to account for the possible linguistic factors which may affect this inflection in light of some theories in morphology. The analysis is based on more than 250 loanwords collected from…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
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Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Mousikou, Petroula; Javourey-Drevet, Ludivine; Schroeder, Sascha; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Grainger, Jonathan – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
The present study examined cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing in the visual and auditory modality. French and German adults performed a visual and auditory lexical decision task that involved the same translation-equivalent items. The focus of the study was on nonwords, which were constructed in a way that made it possible to…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), German, French
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Bal-Gezegin, Betül; Bas, Melike – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The aim of this comparative study is to investigate the deployment of interactional metadiscourse features in two different academic genres. For this purpose, a small, specialized corpus of 48 research articles and book reviews from seven different disciplines were collected. The conclusion sections of the texts written by non-native speakers of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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Han, Mengru; de Jong, Nivja H.; Kager, René – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Previous research indicates that infant-directed speech (IDS) is usually slower than adult-directed speech (ADS) and mothers prefer placing a focused word in isolation or utterance-final position in (English) IDS, which may benefit word learning. This study investigated the speaking rate and word position of IDS in two typologically-distinct…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, Mothers
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Davidson, Denise; Rainey, Vanessa R.; Vanegas, Sandra B.; Hilvert, Elizabeth – Infant and Child Development, 2018
Robust evidence exists for the shape bias, or children's tendency to extend novel names and categorize objects more readily on the basis of shape than on other object features. However, issues remain about the conditions that affect the shape bias and its importance as a linguistic device. In this research, we examined how type of instruction…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Young Children, Classification, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Shi, Jiawei; Zhou, Peng – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
The present studies sought to investigate the mapping relations between language and cognition by focusing on how Mandarin-speaking children acquire the mapping between their conceptual knowledge of possession and their linguistic expressions of possession. Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 used a comprehension task to explore whether…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Nouns, Task Analysis
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Shchetinina, A. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article considers the problem of how a particular social lexicon related to the theme of bribery in Russia that was used in various linguistic contexts during various historical periods should be described. Such a study is needed due to the lack of a comprehensive description of the vocabulary of social relations, including institutional…
Descriptors: Russian, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse, Interpersonal Relationship
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Rescorla, Leslie; Constants, Holly; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Ochal, Anna – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The objective of this study was to compare vocabulary size and composition in 2-year-olds learning Polish or English as measured by the Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Method: Participants were 199 Polish toddlers (M = 24.14 months, SD = 0.35) and 422 U.S. toddlers (M = 24.69 months, SD = 0.78). Results: Test-retest…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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Demuth, Katherine – First Language, 2019
It has long been known that children may use a particular grammatical morpheme inconsistently at early stages of acquisition. Although this has often been thought to be evidence of incomplete syntactic representations, there is now a large body of crosslinguistic evidence showing that much of this early within-speaker variability is due to still…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Child Language, Grammar, Morphemes
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Saricaoglu, Aysel; Atak, Nesrin – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
This study explores how syntactic complexity and lexical complexity vary in argumentative essays written by L2 learners of English at B2 and C1 CEFR proficiency levels. We approach both syntactic complexity and lexical complexity from a multi-dimensional perspective, examining syntactic complexity at different levels (i.e., global, clausal, and…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sonbul, Suhad; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Al-Otaibi, Hind – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Experimental research on the interface between second language vocabulary knowledge, including collocations, and translation competence is scarce. The present study investigates the role played by three determinants of collocation knowledge (knowledge level -- recall versus recognition, congruency, and constituent word types) in the accuracy of…
Descriptors: Translation, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Kim, Min-Kyung; Lee, Seung-Ah – English Teaching, 2022
This study addresses the lack of comprehension data in second language acquisition research by focusing on English existential "there"-constructions (ETCs) with a locative extension (e.g., "there is an X on the Y"). The post-copular noun X used in the present study consisted of two types: actual and nonsense. Participants…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Duranovic, Mirela; Gangl, Melanie; Finke, Sabrina; Smajlagic, Senka; Landerl, Karin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
A substantial body of research has noted morphological priming effects in visual word recognition in deep orthographies, but it is still unclear whether similar effects exist in transparent orthographies. In the present experiment, we investigated the development of morphological decomposition in visual word recognition in the phonologically…
Descriptors: Priming, Morphology (Languages), Slavic Languages, Word Recognition
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Koenig, Ashley; Arunachalam, Sudha; Saudino, Kimberly J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
Children's lexical processing speed at 18 to 25 months of age has been linked to concurrent and later language abilities. In the current study, we extend this finding to children aged 36 months. Children (N = 126) participated in a lexical processing task in which they viewed two static images on noun trials (e.g., an ear of corn and a hat), or…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Nouns, Verbs, School Readiness
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