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Douglas John Getty – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Given that both spoken and written language are subject to corruption from speech errors, disfluencies, and environmental noise, successful language comprehension sometimes requires deriving a non-veridical understanding of the linguistic input. Recent work has demonstrated that these non-veridical understandings are not merely semantic, but that,…
Descriptors: Priming, Linguistic Input, Comprehension, Structural Linguistics
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Andrés Buxó-Lugo; L. Robert Slevc – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Interpreting a sentence can be characterized as a rational process in which comprehenders integrate linguistic input with top-down knowledge (e.g., plausibility). One type of evidence for this is that comprehenders sometimes reinterpret sentences to arrive at interpretations that conflict with the original language input. Does this reflect a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Comprehension, Syntax, Sentence Structure
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Ge, Haoyan; Liu, Fang; Yuen, Hoi Kwan; Chen, Aishu; Yip, Virginia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Suprasegmentals
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Marian Marchal; Merel C. J. Scholman; Vera Demberg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Linguistic phenomena (e.g., words and syntactic structure) co-occur with a wide variety of meanings. These systematic correlations can help readers to interpret a text and create predictions about upcoming material. However, to what extent these correlations influence discourse processing is still unknown. We address this question by examining…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Discourse Analysis, Cues
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Batia Laufer – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The study investigates whether comprehension of derived words in text context requires a complete understanding of word parts. It explores comprehension of derived words as a function of learner proficiency and contextual clues. Ninety English-as-a-foreign-language learners at three proficiency levels participated in three successive tests…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
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Lindgren, Josefin – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This longitudinal study investigated the development of oral narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children (N = 17). The MAIN Cat/Dog stories were administered at four timepoints between age 4 and 9. Different narrative aspects were found to develop differently. In story comprehension, the children performed high already at T1 (4;4)…
Descriptors: Young Children, Swedish, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Valerie Johanne Langlois – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Comprehenders encounter a variety of syntactic structures through reading or spoken conversation. In some cases, sentences can be ambiguous and have more than one meaning. In "The spy saw the cop with the binoculars," one interpretation is that the spy is looking through the binoculars, while an alternative is that the cop has the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Pacing, Verbs, Syntax
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Pronina, Mariia; Prieto, Pilar; Bischetti, Luca; Bambini, Valentina – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Pragmatics, Suprasegmentals, Preschool Children
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Tuyuan Cheng – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The relationship between working memory (WM) and language processing has been extensively investigated in cognitive research. Previous studies mostly obtain evidence from measuring the involvement of WM in complex syntactic structures reported with well-established processing asymmetry, e.g., relative clauses (RCs) in English. Rarely considered is…
Descriptors: Memory, Interference (Learning), Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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Zibin, Aseel; Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib; Suleiman, Dima; Al Abdallat, Bassam – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Numerous studies suggest that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) encounter language problems related to syntax. In particular, these children face difficulties in comprehending and answering complex language structures in Arabic. This paper examines whether a prototype Arabic assistive application can have an impact on the ability of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Syntax
Kathleen Gael Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and comprehending language frequently requires the retrieval of items in memory so that a current linguistic element can be assigned an interpretation. For example, in a sentence such as "Miles loved his…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Recall (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Students majoring in translation at the College of Languages and Translation take a stylistics course (3 hours per week) in the 5th semester of the translation program. The course aims to introduce students to the stylistic features of different genres in English such as journalese, advertisements, commercial, scientific, and legal texts. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Language Styles, Writing (Composition)
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Fujita, Hiroki; Cunnings, Ian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
The mechanisms underlying native (L1) and non-native (L2) sentence processing have been widely debated. One account of potential L1/L2 differences is that L2 sentence processing underuses syntactic information and relies heavily on semantic and surface cues. Recently, an alternative account has been proposed, which argues that the source of L1/L2…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Sentences, Language Processing
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Koizumi, Manami; Kojima, Michio – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background and aims: Previous studies suggest that syntactic development in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) is positively correlated with verbal short-term memory (VSTM). This study investigated the characteristics of syntactic development and their relationships of VSTM in children with ID based on type. Methods: The participants…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Syntax, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome
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Wiklund, Mari; Laakso, Minna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This paper analyses disfluencies and ungrammatical expressions in the speech of 11-13-year-old Finnish-speaking boys with ASD (N = 5) and with neurotypical development (N = 6). The ASD data were from authentic group therapy sessions and neurotypical data from teacher-led group discussions. The proportion of disfluencies and ungrammatical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Grammar, Error Patterns
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