NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 1,576 to 1,590 of 2,472 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ural, A. Engin; Yuret, Deniz; Ketrez, F. Nihan; Kocbas, Dilara; Kuntay, Aylin C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
The syntactic bootstrapping mechanism of verb learning was evaluated against child-directed speech in Turkish, a language with rich morphology, nominal ellipsis and free word order. Machine-learning algorithms were run on transcribed caregiver speech directed to two Turkish learners (one hour every two weeks between 0;9 to 1;10) of different…
Descriptors: Cues, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Language Acquisition
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Arter, Lisa Maxwell; Nilsen, Alleen Pace – Reading Teacher, 2009
Vocabulary instruction is addressed on two levels in this article: 1) the importance of direct teaching and 2) using the books of a popular children's series as examples to support these vocabulary lessons. Also addressed are specific methods of turning classrooms into places where vocabulary instruction is effective and enjoyable. Elements of…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kuperman, Victor; Schreuder, Robert; Bertram, Raymond; Baayen, R. Harald – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
This article reports an eye-tracking experiment with 2,500 polymorphemic Dutch compounds presented in isolation for visual lexical decision while readers' eye movements were registered. The authors found evidence that both full forms of compounds ("dishwasher") and their constituent morphemes (e.g., "dish," "washer," "er") and morphological…
Descriptors: Cues, Eye Movements, Language Processing, Morphemes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hualde, Jose Ignacio – Language Sciences, 2009
In this paper, I examine the prosodic nature of unstressed function words in Spanish. I defend the hypothesis that these words, like all other words in the language, have a syllable that is lexically designated as stressed. I suggest that the essential property of these words is that they are subject to a rule of prosodic merger with following…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Phonology, Spanish, Syllables
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Verhagen, Josje – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2009
This study investigates the acquisition of post-verbal (temporal) adverbials and post-verbal negation in L2 Dutch. It is based on previous findings for L2 French that post-verbal negation poses less of a problem for L2 learners than post-verbal adverbial placement (Hawkins, Towell, Bazergui, Second Language Research 9: 189-233, 1993; Herschensohn,…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Poirier, Josee; Shapiro, Lewis P.; Love, Tracy; Grodzinsky, Yosef – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
We investigate the on-line processing of verb-phrase ellipsis (VPE) constructions in two brain injured populations: Broca's and Anomic aphasics. VPE constructions are built from two simple clauses; the first is the antecedent clause and the second is the ellipsis clause. The ellipsis clause is missing its verb and object (i.e., its verb phrase…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Aphasia
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Renaud, Claire – Second Language Research, 2009
Lardiere's discussion raises important questions about the use of features in second language (L2) acquisition. This response examines predictions for processing of a feature-valuing model vs. a frequency-sensitive, associative model in explaining the acquisition of French past participle agreement. Results from a reading-time experiment support…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, French, Language Processing, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Schmid, Monika S.; Gilbers, Steven; Nota, Amber – Second Language Research, 2014
The present article provides an exploration of ultimate attainment in second language (L2) and its limitations. It is argued that the question of maturational constraints can best be investigated when the reference population is bilingual and exposed on a regular basis to varieties of their first language (L1) that show cross-linguistic influence.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language)
Hwang, So-One K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores the hypothesis that language processing proceeds in "windows" that correspond to representational units, where sensory signals are integrated according to time-scales that correspond to the rate of the input. To investigate universal mechanisms, a comparison of signed and spoken languages is necessary. Underlying the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Testing, Morphemes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Barner, David; Wood, Justin; Hauser, Marc; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2008
Set representations are explicitly expressed in natural language. For example, many languages distinguish between sets and subsets ("all" vs. "some"), as well as between singular and plural sets ("a cat" vs. "some cats"). Three experiments explored the hypothesis that these representations are language specific, and thus absent from the conceptual…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Processing, Animals, Evolution
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lillo-Martin, Diane; Snyder, William – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
This article presents the authors' comments on Nina Hyams' article, "The Acquisition of Inflection: A Parameter Setting Approach" (AIPSA). The article began as a 1986 presentation at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Parts of it were also presented at the 4th Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL) in 1987…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Verbs, Morphemes, Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Soderstrom, Melanie – Journal of Child Language, 2008
Two recent papers (de Villiers & Johnson, 2007; Johnson, de Villiers & Seymour, 2005) have claimed that children have difficulty with verbal "-s" until five- six-years-old. This contrasts with perceptual studies showing evidence for sensitivity to the grammatical properties of verbal "-s" as young as 1;4. These apparently conflicting findings can…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Choe, Mun Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study discusses cognitive processes when speakers produce language in real time, with its focus on cross-linguistic differences in the procedural aspect of language use. It demonstrates that the syntactic characteristics of a language shape the speakers' overall process of sentence planning and production: how they construct sentential…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Comparative Analysis
Liu, Chao – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that speakers of different languages perceive and conceptualize the world differently, but do their brains reflect these differences? In English, most nouns do not provide linguistic clues to their categories, whereas most Mandarin Chinese nouns provide explicit category information, either…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Mandarin Chinese, Classification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  ...  |  165