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Breadmore, Helen L.; Côté, Emily; Deacon, S. Hélène – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: Despite abundant evidence that morphemes are important in reading and spelling, little is known about the nature of processing in spelling. This study identifies multiple morphological processes over the time course of spelling, revealing that these processes are influenced by development. Method: Twenty adults and 46 children (8;0-12;1…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spelling, Handwriting, Cognitive Processes
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Harmon, Zara; Barak, Libby; Shafto, Patrick; Edwards, Jan; Feldman, Naomi H. – Developmental Science, 2023
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) regularly use the bare form of verbs (e.g., dance) instead of inflected forms (e.g., danced). We propose an account of this behavior in which processing difficulties of children with DLD disproportionally affect processing novel inflected verbs in their input. Limited experience with inflection…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Children, Language Processing
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Meilin Zhan; Sihan Chen; Roger Levy; Jiayi Lu; Edward Gibson – Cognitive Science, 2023
Previous work has shown that English native speakers interpret sentences as predicted by a noisy-channel model: They integrate both the real-world plausibility of the meaning--the prior--and the likelihood that the intended sentence may be corrupted into the perceived sentence. In this study, we test the noisy-channel model in Mandarin Chinese, a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Sentence Structure
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Nikole D. Patson; Tessa Warren; Fabian Hurler; Barbara Kaup – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
To develop theories of how comprehenders extract the message from a linguistic stream, it is critical to understand how they conceptually represent referents. The experiments reported here focus on singular collective nouns (e.g., "committee," "team"), which introduce a single group into the discourse and test whether they…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Grammar, Spatial Ability
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Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Taha, Haitham – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
We examined the role of morphological processing in the reading of inflections and derivations in Arabic, a morphologically-rich language, among 228 first-graders and 230 second-graders. All words were morphologically complex, with differences in number of morphemes and morphological transparency. Inflections consisted of three morphemes, with…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Arabic
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Janna B. Oetting – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Shin and Mill (2021) propose four steps children go through when learning "variable form use." Although I applaud Shin and Miller's focus on morphosyntactic variation, their accrual of evidence is post hoc and selective. Fortunately, Shin and Miller recognize this and encourage tests of their ideas. In support of their work, I share data…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Comparative Analysis
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Sara J. Margolin; Timothy Brackins – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Negated text is a difficult text construction that readers encounter in various forms throughout their lives. Despite a wealth of research on its impact, including potential strategies to improve comprehension, readers maintain poor comprehension when encountering this text construction. Given its large potential impact on reading texts like…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Accuracy
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Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Developmental Science, 2024
There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as "She play tennis" and "Mummy eating" is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context-blind fashion. So how do children stop making such…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Preschool Children, Grammar
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Jared Vasil; Dayna Price; Michael Tomasello – Child Development, 2024
The current study investigated whether age-related changes in the conceptualization of social groups influences interpretation of the pronoun we. Sixty-four 2- and 4-year-olds (N = 29 female, 50 White-identifying) viewed scenarios in which it was ambiguous how many puppets performed an activity together. When asked who performed the activity, a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Morphemes
Noa Attali – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I investigate how people navigate ambiguity in everyday speech, with a focus on quantifier-negation sentences. Combining corpus analysis, behavioral experiments, and computational modeling in the Rational Speech Act framework, I explore preferred interpretations of quantifier-negation and examine the contexts and prosodies…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Ambiguity (Semantics), Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Pajaree Buasomboon; Nattama Pongpairoj – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
The present continuous tense can be problematic among L1 Thai learners due to the variation in contexts in which the tense can be used (Boonjoon, 2017; Khattiya, 2018; Kongthai, 2015). The present study aimed to examine the functional use of the English present continuous tense by L1 Thai learners under the theoretical framework of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thai, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Taft, Marcus; Li, Junmin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Monolingual English speakers and Chinese-English bilinguals were compared on their lexical decision performance in a masked priming experiment where the prime and target ended in the same embedded word. All primes were nonwords where the letters in addition to the embedded word did not form a morpheme (e.g., the "sab" of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English, Bilingual Students
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Su, Yongqiang; Chen, Xi; Huo, Michelle Ru Yun; Gan, Yan; Zhang, Jiawen; Li, Hong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
In the present study, we designed a dynamic measure to assess emerging morphological awareness in Chinese children and examined its concurrent and longitudinal relations with character recognition. The initial question of the dynamic assessment of morphological awareness (DAMA) task asked children to judge whether the first morphemes in a pair of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Morphemes, Identification, Character Recognition
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Abdul Rauf; Shahbaz Hamid; Wajid Ali Khan – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2023
Grammar teaching and learning is an important component to get mastery over any language. English language is being taught as first, second or foreign language in many countries. Consider whether inductive or deductive teaching is more effective for learning English grammar as a second language is a topic for contemplation. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Baker, Clarisse; Bryant, Lucy; Power, Emma – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Narrative discourse is central to effective participation in conversations. When discourse is assessed in people with communication disability, structured tasks (e.g., picture descriptions) provide experimental control, while unstructured tasks (e.g., personal narratives) represent more natural communication. Immersive virtual reality…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Narration, Adults, Aphasia
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