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Street, James A.; Dabrowska, Ewa – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This article provides experimental evidence for the role of lexically specific representations in the processing of passive sentences and considerable education-related differences in comprehension of the passive construction. The experiment measured response time and decision accuracy of participants with high and low academic attainment using an…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Adults, Psycholinguistics
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Pliatsikas, Christos; Marinis, Theodoros – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Dual-system models suggest that English past tense morphology involves two processing routes: rule application for regular verbs and memory retrieval for irregular verbs. In second language (L2) processing research, Ullman suggested that both verb types are retrieved from memory, but more recently Clahsen and Felser and Ullman argued that past…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages)
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Grosvald, Michael; Corina, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study we explore listeners' sensitivity to vowel to vowel (VV) coarticulation, using both event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral methodologies. The stimuli used were vowels "colored" by the coarticulatory influence of other vowels across one, three or five intervening segments. The paradigm used in the ERP portion of the study was…
Descriptors: Evidence, Auditory Stimuli, Vowels, Cognitive Processes
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Verhagen, Josje – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This study investigates the acquisition of verb placement by Moroccan and Turkish second language (L2) learners of Dutch. Elicited production data corroborate earlier findings from L2 German that learners who do not produce auxiliaries do not raise lexical verbs over negation, whereas learners who produce auxiliaries do. Data from elicited…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Native Language
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Cacciari, Cristina; Padovani, Roberto – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Two experiments tested the activation of gender stereotypes for Italian role nouns (e.g., "teacher"). The experimental paradigm was modeled on the one proposed by a study by Banaji and Hardin: participants were shown a prime word followed by a target pronoun ("he" or "she") on which they performed a gender decision task. The prime words were…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Semantics, Nouns, Inhibition
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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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Hummel, Kirsten M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
A review is offered of various bilingual memory studies that have been carried out during the past quarter century. Most of the studies have employed lexical items as the investigative tool, tested outside of a grammatical or semantic context. (Contains 58 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
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Kemper, Susan; Othick, Meghan; Gerhing, Hope; Gubarchuk, Julia; Billington, Catherine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
This study evaluated the effects of practice with a referential communication task on the form and effectiveness of elderspeak, a speech register targeted at older listeners. The task required the listener to reproduce a route drawn on a map following the speakers' instructions. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Research, Language Styles
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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S.; Serra, Emily – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Canadian English-Italian bilingual children were administered phonological, reading, spelling, syntactic, and working memory tasks in both languages. Results suggest English-Italian interdependence is most clearly related to phonological processing but may influence other linguistic modules. Exposure to a language with more predictable…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Italian, Language Processing
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Baum, Shari R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Two experiments were conducted to explore processing of relative clause structures by normal elderly adults. Four groups of subjects (aged 20-29 years, 60-69 years, 70-79 years, and 80-89 years) participated in a lexical decision task and a sentence repetition task. (19 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing
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Segalowitz, Norman S.; Segalowitz, Sidney J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Practice on cognitive tasks, such as word recognition tasks, will usually lead to faster and more stable responding in a second language. An analysis is presented of the relationship between observed reductions in performance latency and latency variability with respect to whether processing has become faster or whether a qualitative change, such…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Language Research
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Ricciardelli, Lina A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
Investigated a model of metalinguistic awareness, which consists of two components (the control of linguistic processing and the analysis of linguistic knowledge), in children between the ages of five and seven years. Each of the two components was assessed by four metalinguistic tasks. (Contains 35 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Children, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar