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PDF pending restorationJosselson, Harry H. – 1972
This research is designed to fulfill the need of scholars, teachers, and developers of teaching materials who are active in the study and compilation of Russian textbooks. Through computer processing, the idioms were classified on the basis of pertinent linguistic criteria, including phonological, morphological, and syntactic information. Included…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, Idioms, Information Processing
Download full textVosniadou, Stella – 1985
The linguistic form of a nonliteral expression, and the context in which it occurs, can greatly influence young children's succcess or failure in assigning a meaning to a figurative expression. Experiments have shown that the same metaphorical expression can be easier to understand when expressed in a linguistic form that is familiar to young…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Clues, Information Processing
Peer reviewedAbraham, Roberta – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1983
Questions whether observed differences in use of strategy of monitoring is related to the following cognitive styles: field independence, reflection, flexible control, and preference for processing information by the written word. Field independence was positively related to amount of monitoring on all written tasks, and reflection was weakly but…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Barclay, J. R. – 1975
The four papers in this collection discuss language perception and comprehension and report on experiments in those areas. The first paper, "The Influence of Non-Linguistic Knowledge on Perceiving and Verifying Sentences," discusses the reliance of language perception and comprehension on the interaction of linguistic and world…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues
Hawson, Anne – 1996
The cognitive aspect of second language learning, specifically by immersion method, is discussed from a biological perspective. The approach taken is that of "connectionism," a recently-developed theoretical and experimental approach to human cognition. It is argued that while general cognitive functioning is unaffected by language immersion,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Immersion Programs, Information Processing, Language Processing
Peer reviewedTsui, Amy B. M.; Fullilove, John – Applied Linguistics, 1998
This study investigated whether top-down or bottom-up cognitive processing was more important in listening comprehension in large-scale English-as-a-Second-Language tests administered to secondary school students in Hong Kong over a period of seven years. Results suggest that bottom-up processing was more important than top-down processing in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Information Processing
