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So, Wing-Chee; Lim, Jia-Yi; Tan, Seok-Hui – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This paper explores whether English-Mandarin bilingual children have mastered discourse skills and whether they show sensitivity to the discourse principle of information status of referents in their speech and gestures. We compare the speech and gestures produced by bilingual children to those produced by English- and Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nonverbal Communication, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Prior, Anat; Wintner, Shuly; MacWhinney, Brian; Lavie, Alon – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
We compare translations of single words, made by bilingual speakers in a laboratory setting, with contextualized translation choices of the same items, made by professional translators and extracted from parallel language corpora. The translation choices in both cases show moderate convergence, demonstrating that decontextualized translation…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Figurative Language, Language Processing
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Weismer, Susan Ellis; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In her Keynote Article, Paradis reviews evidence from bilingual language development to assess the claims of two opposing theoretical views of language disorders. Specifically, she examines the evidence for similarities in language profiles of typically developing (TD) sequential bilingual (second language [L2]) children and monolingual children…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Duran, Nicholas D.; Hall, Charles; McCarthy, Philip M.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
The words people use and the way they use them can reveal a great deal about their mental states when they attempt to deceive. The challenge for researchers is how to reliably distinguish the linguistic features that characterize these hidden states. In this study, we use a natural language processing tool called Coh-Metrix to evaluate deceptive…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Linguistics, Information Technology, Deception
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Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
I commend Johanne Paradis not only for her interesting Keynote Article but also for the careful research that she has conducted along with her collaborators in the area of bilingual language development and disorders. Her contributions have been significant and are sure to shape our theoretical as well as clinical understanding of specific…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Paradis, Johanne – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders has increased greatly in the past decade. The purpose of this article is to highlight the theoretical and clinical implications of this research. Studies examining the similarities in linguistic characteristics between typically developing sequential bilingual children…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
What makes a child's language development trajectory have the patterns that it has, and what causes differences across children in those patterns? These fundamental questions have for over half a century been at the heart of research on language development in monolingual children, on the cross-linguistic development of language in children from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Profiles
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Paradis, Johanne – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Bilingualism is often considered an inappropriate developmental choice for children with specific language impairment (SLI) because, according to a widespread belief, these children's limited capacity for language would be overtaxed by learning two linguistic systems. However, there has not been adequate empirical investigation of SLI in bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, French, Bilingualism, Language Research
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Bishop, D. V. M.; Adams, C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Presents results of a study involving 54 8- to 12-year-old children with specific language impairment who are compared with a control group on a referential communication task. The children were asked to describe a picture from an array of eight similar items so that the listener could identify it. (18 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Language Handicaps
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Villaume, Susan Kidd; Wilson, Lavisa Cam – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Preschool children's early understanding of letters was explored. Five tasks were designed to elicit information about children's conceptualizations of letters in their own names, and the children's responses were analyzed descriptively to determine general patterns. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Gartner, Gloria M.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Normally hearing children (aged 4--10) and hearing-impaired children (aged 6--14) were tested on word awareness skills, such as the distinction between words and their referents, and their ability to provide explicit definitions of word. Older children performed significantly better than younger children, and normally hearing children performed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Skye McDonald – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Experiments compared two closed head injury (CHI) subjects with normal subject's ability to interpret indirect speech acts with the ability of uninjured individuals. The CHI individuals displayed difficulty in interpreting indirect speech or rejecting literal meanings. The results are discussed in terms of common cognitive deficits after closed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Head Injuries, Interviews
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Maxwell, Madeline; Bernstein, Mark E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Describes research into the correspondence between speech and sign language by looking at simultaneous communication as it is used by fluent deaf persons. The study aims to determine what relationship, if any, exists between the morpheme level and the message level of utterances in discourse. (SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
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Schwartz, Sybil – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1983
Compares and contrasts the abilities of normal and learning disabled students to abstract spelling patterns in the course of their acquisition of spelling skills. The performance of the learning disabled was significantly below that of the normal students. In addition, error analysis indicates that the responses of the learning disabled spellers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Dictation, Language Acquisition
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Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Examines the communicative functions served by the lexical usage of normal and language impaired children whose speech was limited to single word utterances. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition
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