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Christopher Nicklin; Allie Patterson; Stuart McLean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency
Jessica Lee Paranczak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Recommendations for achieving generalized instructional outcomes often overlook the capacity for generative learning. We sought to demonstrate how decontextualized and logically organized instruction would lead to derived and contextually appropriate recombinative generalization and arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARRing) in…
Descriptors: Generalization, Children, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Syihabuddin Syihabuddin; Nurul Murtadho; Yusring Sanusi Baso; Hikmah Maulani; Shofa Musthofa Khalid – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Assessing whether a book is relevant or suitable for use in teaching materials is not an easy and haphazard matter, various methods and theories have been offered by researchers in studying this matter. Taking a study of the context of textbooks, researchers found the urgency that textbooks are a foundation for education, socialization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Ivan Lasan – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study explores whether English-dominant (ED) speakers and speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) perceive the same degrees of formality in combinations of (in)formal greetings (Hi/Dear) and address forms (informal First Name/Ms. Last Name) with (in)formal nouns, verbs, and adjectives (Latinate/Germanic). It also explores which of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Nouns, Verbs
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LaTourrette, Alexander; Waxman, Sandra; Wakschlag, Lauren S.; Norton, Elizabeth S.; Weisleder, Adriana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines online speech processing in typically developing and late-talking 2-year-old children, comparing both groups' word recognition, word prediction, and word learning. Method: English-acquiring U.S. children, from the "When to Worry" study of language and social--emotional development, were identified as typical…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Word Recognition
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Raquel G. Alhama; Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Allyson Ettinger; Susan Goldin-Meadow; Afra Alishahi – Grantee Submission, 2023
Having heard "a pimwit", English-speakers assume that "the pimwit" is also possible. This type of productivity is attributed to syntactic categories such as NOUN and DETERMINER, but the key question is "how" do humans become endowed with these categories in the first place. We propose a novel approach that combines…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Child Language, Native Language
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Löhr, Guido; Michel, Christian – Cognitive Science, 2022
We propose a cognitive-psychological model of linguistic intuitions about copredication statements. In copredication statements, like "The book is heavy and informative," the nominal denotes two ontologically distinct entities at the same time. This has been considered a problem for standard truth-conditional semantics. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intuition, Decision Making, Ethics
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Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigate German-Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, whereas sensitivity to semantic and syntactic cues increases with age. With its semi-transparent gender assignment system,…
Descriptors: Phonology, German, Russian, Language Acquisition
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Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In the current study, we examined the role of first-language (L1) influence on the additional-language development of grammatical gender marking in Spanish. The participants were L1 speakers of English or French (N = 215), who were learning Spanish and who were at three instructional levels. The data came from their use of gender marking in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, English, French
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Paape, Dario; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2022
What is the processing cost of being garden-pathed by a temporary syntactic ambiguity? We argue that comparing average reading times in garden-path versus non-garden-path sentences is not enough to answer this question. Trial-level contaminants such as inattention, the fact that garden pathing may occur non-deterministically in the ambiguous…
Descriptors: Computation, Language Processing, Syntax, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Benjamin Luke Davies; Katherine Demuth – Language Learning and Development, 2024
When acquiring the English plural, children correctly produce plural words long before they develop an understanding of morphological structure. When acquiring Sesotho noun prefixes, children are aware of the multiple constraints governing variation from a young age. Both of these cases raise questions about the Shin and Miller (2022) account of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Second Language Learning
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Bénédicte Grandon; Marcel Schlechtweg; Esther Ruigendijk – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Our goal is to understand how the different types of plural marking are understood and processed by children with cochlear implants (CIs): (a) how does salience affect the processing of plural marking, (b) how is this processing affected by the incomplete signal provided by the CIs, and (c) is it linked to individual factors such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistive Technology, Morphemes, Children
Stephanie K. Rich – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the role of memory in language processing, and specifically how interference during lexical encoding can result in downstream interference during retrieval. The dissertation merges insights from both the sentence processing literature as well as the study of memory in non-sentential contexts and focuses on two factors…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Interference (Language), Recall (Psychology), Psycholinguistics
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Yaqian Shi; Lei Lei – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Most of the previous studies focused on lexical and syntactic features in adapted texts while little attention has been paid to the structural complexity from the perspective of the amount of information. In this study, we intend to examine the differences in structural complexity in adapted texts from the perspective of the amount of information…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading Research, Grammar, Syntax
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Jianfen Luo; Lei Xu; Min Wang; Jinming Li; Shuman He; Linda Spencer; Huei-Mei Liu; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The present study evaluated the applicability of the sentence-focused framework to Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) by examining the relative contribution of receptive/expressive noun and verb lexicon sizes to later grammatical complexity. Method: Participants were 51 Mandarin-speaking children who received cochlear…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary
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