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Baggio, Giosuè – Cognitive Science, 2021
Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for decades, and it is increasingly prominent in many other areas of cognitive science. Its status, however, remains contentious. Here, I reassess the nature and scope of the principle of compositionality (Partee, 1995) from the perspective of psycholinguistics and cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Neurosciences, Phrase Structure
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Ambridge, Ben; Bidgood, Amy; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Freudenthal, Daniel – Cognitive Science, 2016
To explain the phenomenon that certain English verbs resist passivization (e.g., "*£5 was cost by the book"), Pinker (1989) proposed a semantic constraint on the passive in the adult grammar: The greater the extent to which a verb denotes an action where a patient is affected or acted upon, the greater the extent to which it is…
Descriptors: Adults, Grammar, Verbs, Semantics
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Pescante-Malimas, Mary Ann; Samson, Sonrisa C. – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
This study identified and analyzed the common linguistic errors encountered by Linguistics, Literature, and Advertising Arts majors in their Thesis Proposal classes in the First Semester 2016-2017. The data were the drafts of the thesis proposals of the students from the three different programs. A total of 32 manuscripts were analyzed which was…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Proposal Writing, Theses, Student Writing Models
Mathew, Bincy; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Language is of vital importance to human beings. It is a means of communication and it has specific cognitive links. Advanced social cognition is necessary for children to acquire language, and sophisticated mind-reading abilities to assume word meanings and communicate pragmatically. Language can be defined as a bi-directional system that permits…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Social Cognition, Linguistic Competence, Comparative Analysis
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Christensen, Ken Ramshoj; Kizach, Johannes; Nyvad, Anne Mette – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
In the syntax literature, it is commonly assumed that a constraint on linguistic competence blocks extraction of "wh-"expressions (e.g. "what" or "which book") from embedded questions, referred to as "wh-"islands. Furthermore, it is assumed that there is an argument/adjunct asymmetry in extraction from "wh-"islands. We report results from two…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Indo European Languages, Linguistic Competence, Short Term Memory
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Zhao, Lucy Xia – Second Language Research, 2014
The current study tests the Interface Hypothesis through forward and backward anaphora in complex sentences with temporal subordinate clauses in highly proficient English-speaking learners' second-language (L2) Chinese. Forward anaphora is involved when the overt pronoun "ta" "he/she" or a null element appears in the subject…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Hypothesis Testing
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Blom, Elma; Wijnen, Frank – First Language, 2013
This article addresses a child language stage that has figured prominently in the current debate on children's early linguistic competence: the Optional Infinitive (OI) stage, a relatively extended period during which children freely alternate between finite and nonfinite structures in contexts where adults only use finite forms. The study…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Child Language, Linguistic Competence, Morphology (Languages)
Behjat, Fatemeh; Sadighi, Firooz – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
One of the intricate properties of second language acquisition is that some types of grammatical feature appear to be acquired easily and in a native-like way, while others remain persistently difficult. There is much evidence related to the issue in the current empirical studies, and the issue raises an important explanatory problem for a theory…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Crain, Stephen; Thornton, Rosalind; Murasugi, Keiko – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
In the 1980s, researchers in child language devised several new experimental techniques to assess children's emerging linguistic competence. Innovations in methodology were needed to bridge the apparent gap between the expectation of rapid language acquisition, based on linguistic theory, and the protracted acquisition that was being witnessed…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Linguistics, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar
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Kuo, Li-jen; Anderson, Richard C. – Educational Psychologist, 2006
In the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in morphological awareness, which refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate morphemes and word formation rules in a language. This review provides a critical synthesis of empirical studies on this topic from a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Research with children speaking several…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Coding, Reading Skills, Metalinguistics
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Collier, Robert G. – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Examines whether language play could affect primary school children's awareness of their syntax. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
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Tomasello, Michael – Cognition, 2000
Details findings indicating that most early linguistic competence is item based. Maintains that language development proceeds without evidence of system-wide syntactic categories, schemas, or parameters. Suggests that findings are not easily explained by the development of children's skills of linguistic performance, pragmatics, or other external…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Models
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Montgomery, James W. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background:School-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit slower real-time (i.e. immediate) language processing relative to same-age peers and younger, language-matched peers. Results of the few studies that have been done seem to indicate that the slower language processing of children with SLI is due to inefficient…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Impairments, Word Recognition, Linguistics
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Nurss, Joanne R. – Young Children, 1980
A research review of the relationship between children's oral language proficiency and the development of linguistic awareness and learning to read. (CM)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children, Early Childhood Education
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