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Schremm, Andrea; Horne, Merle; Roll, Mikael – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The present response time study investigated how a hypothesized time-based working memory constraint of 2-3 s affects the resolution of grammatical and semantic dependencies. Congruent and incongruent object relative (OR) and subject relative sentences were read at different presentation rates so that the distance between dependent words was…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Language Processing, Short Term Memory, Grammar
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Karlsson, Monica – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
In the present investigation, 15 first term university students were faced with 80 context-based idioms in English (L2) and Swedish (L1) respectively, 30 of which were in the source domain of animals, commonly used in both languages, and asked to explain their meaning. The idioms were of varying frequency and transparency. Three main research…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Fox, Eric J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare traditional classification training for a set of abstract concepts with multiple-relations training consisting of inference practice and the use of a content diagram. To examine this, 200 undergraduate and graduate psychology students completed a Web-based tutorial covering the abstract concepts of a…
Descriptors: Classification, Psychology, Internet, Higher Education