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Lammertink, Imme; Boersma, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Rispens, Judith – Language Learning, 2020
Successful language use requires the ability to process nonadjacent dependencies (NADs) that occur in linguistic input. Learning such structural regularities seems therefore crucial for children, and researchers have indeed proposed that language problems in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), especially problems with grammar, are…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Grammar
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Rai, Manpreet K.; Loschky, Lester C.; Harris, Richard Jackson; Peck, Nicole R.; Cook, Lindsay G. – Language Learning, 2011
Although stress is frequently claimed to impede foreign language (FL) reading comprehension, it is usually not explained how. We investigated the effects of stress, working memory (WM) capacity, and inferential complexity on Spanish FL readers' inferential processing during comprehension. Inferences, although necessary for reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Comprehension, Photography, Form Classes (Languages)