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Qi Cheng; Xu Yan; Lujia Yang; Hao Lin – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
The current study combined sentence plausibility judgment and self-paced reading tasks to examine the comprehension strategies and processing patterns of Chinese deaf individuals when comprehending written Chinese sentences with syntactic-semantic cue conflicts. Similar to findings from previous crosslinguistic studies on deaf readers, the Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Reading Comprehension, Syntax
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Chi Zhang; Sarah Bernolet; Robert J. Hartsuiker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We studied the role of discourse coherence relations on structure formulation in sentence production by examining whether a connective, an essential signal of coherence relations, modulates the tendency for speakers to reuse sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). We further examined three possible modulating factors: the type of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Sentence Structure, Priming
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De Cat, Cécile; Melia, Tara – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The Sentence Structure sub-test (SST) of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) aims to "measure the acquisition of grammatical (structural) rules at the sentence level". Although originally designed for clinical practice with monolingual children, components of the CELF, such as the SST, are often used to inform…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
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Carolyn Baker; Tracy Love – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Lexical processing impairments such as delayed and reduced activation of lexical-semantic information have been linked to syntactic processing disruptions and sentence comprehension deficits in individuals with aphasia (IWAs). Lexical-level deficits can also preclude successful lexical encoding during sentence processing and amplify the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Semantics, Networks, Language Processing
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Darling-White, Meghan; Banks, Symone Whitney – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sentence length on speech rate and its characteristics, articulation rate and pauses, in typically developing children. Method: Sixty-two typically developing children between the ages of 10 and 14 years repeated sentences varying in length from two to seven words. Dependent…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Sentence Structure, Speech
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Perfetti, Charles; Helder, Anne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study of word-to-text integration (WTI) provides a window on incremental processes that link the meaning of a word to the preceding text. We review a research program using event-related potential indicators of WTI at sentence beginnings, thus localizing sources of integration to prior text meaning independently of the current sentence. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes
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Noble, Claire; Iqbal, Faria; Lieven, Elena; Theakston, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2016
In two studies we use a pointing task to explore developmentally the nature of the knowledge that underlies three- and four-year-old children's ability to assign meaning to the intransitive structure. The results suggest that early in development children are sensitive to a first-noun-as-causal-agent cue and animacy cues when interpreting…
Descriptors: Cues, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Task Analysis
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Kim, YouJin; Payant, Caroline; Pearson, Pamela – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
The extent to which individual differences in cognitive abilities affect the relationship among task complexity, attention to form, and second language development has been addressed only minimally in the cognition hypothesis literature. The present study explores how reasoning demands in tasks and working memory (WM) capacity predict learners'…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Logical Thinking
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Iza Erviti, Aneider – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
This paper examines the essential features of a group of constructions that belong to the family of complementary alternation discourse constructions in English. In this group of constructions, X and Y are two situations such that Y is less likely (or more likely) to happen than X. Each member of this group (X Let Alone Y, X Much Less Y, X Never…
Descriptors: English, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
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Jiang, Xiaoming; Zhou, Xiaolin – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Humans have special abilities in processing hierarchical, recursive structures. Here we investigated how an upcoming word embedded in a hierarchical structure is semantically integrated into the prior representation during sentence comprehension. Participants read Chinese sentences with a complex verb argument structure "subject…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Savicki, Victor; Price, Michele V. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Reflective thinking is an important feature of study-abroad learning, yet research on reflection in this context is sparse. The current study examined student reflection on 3 content areas (Academic Expectations, Cultural Expectations, and Psychological Issues) at 3 times (before, during, and after study abroad). A content analysis approach with…
Descriptors: College Students, Reflection, Study Abroad, Expectation
Gao, Jing – Online Submission, 2010
Different histories and cultures breed people in the West and the East, and shape their different thought patterns. The differences are manifested in languages they speak and constitute an obstacle in bi-directional understanding and interpretation. In the paper, efforts are made to exemplify the differences in English and Chinese sentence-making,…
Descriptors: Sentences, English, Chinese, Cognitive Processes
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Van Horne, Amanda J. Owen; Lin, Shanju – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
This study investigated the use of cognitive state verbs (CSVs) and complement clauses in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. In Study 1, conversational samples from 23 children with SLI (M = 6;2), 24 age-matched TD children (M = 6;2) and 21 vocabulary-matched TD children (M = 4;9) were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Semantics, Syntax
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del Rio, David; Maestu, Fernando; Lopez-Higes, Ramon; Moratti, Stephan; Gutierrez, Ricardo; Maestu, Ceferino; del-Pozo, Francisco – Neuropsychologia, 2011
During sentence processing there is a preference to treat the first noun phrase found as the subject and agent, unless marked the other way. This preference would lead to a conflict in thematic role assignment when the syntactic structure conforms to a non-canonical object-before-subject pattern. Left perisylvian and fronto-parietal brain networks…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Conflict
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Kukona, Anuenue; Fang, Shin-Yi; Aicher, Karen A.; Chen, Helen; Magnuson, James S. – Cognition, 2011
Several studies have demonstrated that as listeners hear sentences describing events in a scene, their eye movements anticipate upcoming linguistic items predicted by the unfolding relationship between scene and sentence. While this may reflect active prediction based on structural or contextual expectations, the influence of local thematic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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