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Kent, Stuart; Pitt, Jeremy – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the relative merits of feature versus model based semantics for the interpretation of verb phrases in English, French, and German. The article concludes that the simplicity afforded by features is offset by the depth of analysis achieved with event models that are additionally able to support a sophisticated approach to machine…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
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Fretheim, Thorstein; Vasko, Ildiko – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares the meanings of the English adverb "then," that is, at that time and after that, to their lexical equivalents in Hungarian and Norwegian, drawing conclusions in the spirit of Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory. Neither Hungarian nor Norwegian has a word that, like the English "then," neutralizes the distinction…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Bulgarian, Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics
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Caplan, David; Walters, Gloria S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The functional architecture of the verbal processing resource system was studied by testing aphasic patients in Canada and Boston for their abilities to use syntactic structure in sentence comprehension in isolation and under dual-task conditions. Results indicate that the processing resource system underlying syntactic processing is separate from…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
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Hakansson, Gisela; Collberg, Sheila Dooley – Second Language Research, 1994
It is argued that the correct placement of sentential negation with respect to model auxiliaries in Swedish is an example of delayed acquisition resulting from a parametric preference in Universal Grammar. A syntactic analysis is proposed for four recognized stages in the acquisition of negative word order in Swedish. (Contains 41 references.)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Caplan, David; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Reports five experiments; the first two assessed the effect of the selectional restriction requirements of verbs and the animacy of nouns on sentence comprehension, the third determined the cause of the interaction found in the first set of studies, and the fourth and fifth were self-paced reading experiments. (52 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Graphs
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Register, Norma – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis of the responses of Spanish, Chinese, and German learners of English-as-a-Second-Language to English sentences with empty pronominal categories found that, although empty pronouns were pragmatically more natural in finite clauses of Spanish and Chinese than in English or German, only the Spanish subjects had significantly higher mean…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German
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Bloom, Ronald J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the use and understanding of concordant and discordant adverbial conjuncts in the latter part of the life span. Young, middle-aged, and elderly adults, matched for education level, were studied. Results indicate a significant decline in processing adverbial conjuncts in the elderly, due to a deficit in linguistic processing rather than a…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Analysis of Variance
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Ni, Weijia; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Explores the prediction of the referential theory, which maintains that the relative complexity of discourse representations plays a key role in determining the perceiver's immediate parsing preferences. Results indicate that semantic/referential principles are applied immediately in an online ambiguity resolution and preempt general world…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Analysis of Variance, College Students, Discourse Analysis
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Miranda, Elisabeth A.; McCabe, Allysa; Bliss, Lynn S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Investigates the discourse coherence of school-aged children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Children with SLI were found to be significantly impaired in the areas of topic maintenance, event sequencing, explicitness, conjunctive cohesion, and fluency. Theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed. (Author/ER)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grade 3, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Choi, Sunhee; Clark, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
This study compared the use of an animated pedagogical agent (agent) with an electronic arrow and voice narration (arrow and voice) in a multimedia learning environment where 74 college level English as a Second Language (ESL) students learned English relative clauses. No significant differences in learning or performance were found between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, English (Second Language), Sentence Structure, Educational Media
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Borovsky, Arielle; Elman, Jeff – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Variations in the amount and nature of early language to which children are exposed have been linked to their subsequent ability (e.g. Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryk, Seltzer & Lyons, 1991; Hart & Risley, 1995). In three computational simulations, we explore how differences in linguistic experience can explain differences in word learning ability due…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Child Language
Hart, Robert S. – 1994
The report describes improved algorithms within a computer program for identifying spelling and word order errors in student responses. A "markup analysis" compares a student's response string to an author-specified model string and generates a graphical error markup that indicates spelling, capitalization, and accent errors, extra or…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Authoring Aids (Programming), Capitalization (Alphabetic), Comparative Analysis
Crystal, David – 1995
The encyclopedia is designed as a reference work on the history, structure, and use of English. The first section outlines five phases in the development of the English language (origins, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Modern English) and then proceeds to the varieties of world English and perceptions of English and its future.…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Encyclopedias, English, Etymology
Adams, Beverly Colwell; Wade, Melissa M. – 1996
A study investigated whether children and adolescents use commas and the principle of Late Closure to guide sentence parsing decisions as adults do in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences. The study consisted of three experiments, conducted similarly but with different subject groups: 24 university students; 24 fourth-graders; and 19…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
Noor, Hashim H. – 1996
Based on a review of research, the most common syntactic errors made by native Arabic-speaking learners of English as a second language are discussed. Seven categories of error are distinguished and described: verbal errors (use of tense, phase, aspect, voice, verb formation, concord, finite/non-finite verbs); relative clauses (interlingual and…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Arabic, Conjunctions, Determiners (Languages)
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