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Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 2001
Suggests that various parts of the grammar of American Sign Language--particularly its verb and pronoun system--give convincing evidence that such grammar cannot have derived from the grammars of spoken languages; rather the continuity is from cognitive activity expressed in gSigns toward linguistic organization both of the expressive material and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Grammar
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Discusses the impact of the development of a dictionary of Jersey Norman French. The dictionary has created a perception among speakers of Jersey French that they did not know the language. This perception appears to be the result of the ecological change that the dictionary produced by repositioning the language from an oral habitat to a written…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, French, Language Planning
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Akhtar, Nameera; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined two-year-olds' word learning. In one study, adults modeled the new word for an object novel to the children; in another, the object was novel only for the adult. Subjects displayed significant learning of new words in both settings, suggesting that toddlers understand that novelty in a discourse setting is determined from the speaker's…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Oral Language
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Gussenhoven, Carlos – Language and Speech, 1999
Three experimental techniques that can be used to investigate the gradient of discrete nature of intonational differences, the semantic task, the imitation task, and the pitch range task are discussed and evaluated. It is pointed out that categorical perception is a sufficient but not a necessary, property of phonological discreteness. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Intonation, Oral Language, Phonetics, Phonology
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Costa, Albert; Caramazza, Alfonso – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Addresses the question of whether lexical selection is achieved by bilingual speakers during speech production. Specifically, tests whether there is competition between the two lexicons of a bilingual during lexical access. Two picture-word interference experiments explore the performance of two groups of bilinguals: English-Spanish, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Interference (Language), Oral Language
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Pitt, Mark A.; Shoaf, Lisa – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
Describes the Verbal Transformation Effect (VTE): When listeners hear the same word repeated very many times at a rapid rate, the word tends to be perceived as other words. Reports lexical effects in the VTE and examines their cause. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Oral Language
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Bard, Ellen Gurman; Sotillo, Catherine; Kelly, M. Louise; Aylett, Mathew P. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
Reviews evidence suggesting that word recognition requires use not only of acoustic-phonetic and lexical information, but also discourse information. Argues there is much variability in causal continuous speech and that there is no simple way to predict or constrain these phonological changes. Suggests one way listeners deal with this variability…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Language Variation, Oral Language
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Allen, Mark D. – Brain and Language, 2005
Patient WBN has a lexical-semantic deficit resulting in impaired performance on language comprehension tasks that require access to verb meanings in both single-word and sentence contexts. However, WBN shows no such comprehension impairment with respect to lexical syntax. Specifically, he performs without error on comprehension tasks that rely on…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Comprehension, Oral Language
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Cruz, MaryCarmen – English Journal, 2005
The examination model usually follows the formal, academic reading writing method for measuring progress however it is observed the more opportunities students have to practice formal oral language, the better their academic writing becomes, it is particularly true for most learners. The importance in speaking in a formal setting and using formal…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English, Testing, Persuasive Discourse
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Bishop, Michele; Hicks, Sheery – Sign Language Studies, 2005
Hearing children from deaf families, Codas, represent a relatively invisible linguistic and cultural minority. Many hearing people are unaware of the fact that American Sign Language (ASL) is a separate language with its own grammatical structure unlike that of English. This misconception has led to an emphasis on oral education for deaf people in…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Adults
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Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
This study investigates recognition of spoken idioms occurring in neutral contexts. Experiment 1 showed that both predictable and non-predictable idiom meanings are available at string offset. Yet, only predictable idiom meanings are active halfway through a string and remain active after the string's literal conclusion. Experiment 2 showed that…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Word Recognition, Oral Language, Figurative Language
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Roberts, Theresa A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
This study examined how providing either primary- or English-language storybooks for home reading followed by classroom storybook reading and vocabulary instruction in English influenced English vocabulary acquisition. Participants in the study were preschool children (N = 33), from low socioeconomic status families, whose primary language was…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Skills
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Scott, Kathleen A.; Roberts, Jenny A.; Krakow, Rena – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: The sharp increase in the number of international adoptions in the United States has prompted a heightened interest in the language development of internationally adopted children. Although recent studies have investigated the early language development of adoptees, little is known about the school-age language and literacy skills of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Written Language, Foreign Countries
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Crosson, Amy C.; Lesaux, Nonie K.; Martiniello, Maria – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study explores factors influencing the degree to which language minority (LM) children from Spanish-dominant homes understand how connectives, such as "in contrast" and "because", signal relationships between text propositions. Standardized tasks of vocabulary, listening comprehension, word reading, and a researcher-designed text cohesion…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Semantics
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McMillan, Kathleen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2008
Students enter higher education with multiple identities that reflect their social, ethnic and cultural origins. Students from minority ethnic groups (as opposed to "new immigrant" or international students) straddle more than one cultural and language setting. This paper reports a Scottish study which suggests that, as university…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension, Higher Education, Ethnic Groups
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