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Franck, Julie; Millotte, Severine; Posada, Andres; Rizzi, Luigi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Word order is one of the earliest aspects of grammar that the child acquires, because her early utterances already respect the basic word order of the target language. However, the question of the nature of early syntactic representations is subject to debate. Approaches inspired by formal syntax assume that the head-complement order,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Models, Constructivism (Learning), Word Order
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Jackson, Carrie N.; Roberts, Leah – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
The results of a self-paced reading study with German second language (L2) learners of Dutch showed that noun animacy affected the learners' on-line commitments when comprehending relative clauses in their L2. Earlier research has found that German L2 learners of Dutch do not show an on-line preference for subject-object word order in temporarily…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Word Order
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Hassan, Taman A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
The role of four cues in the assignment of actor role in Arabic was studied. Fifty-four sentences representing all possible permutations of the cues were presented to 100 native speakers of Arabic who were asked to identify the actor in each sentence. (Contains 41 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Case (Grammar), College Students, Cues