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Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Trueswell, John C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Twenty-five children with specific language impairment (SLI; age 5 years, 3 months [5;3]-8;2), 50 typically developing children (3;3-8;2), and 31 normal adults participated in three eye-tracking experiments of spoken language comprehension that were designed to investigate the use of verb information during real-time sentence comprehension in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Semantics, Language Impairments, Speech
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Yang, Pi-Lan; Shih, Su-Chin – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Using a self-paced reading task, the study aimed to investigate (a) whether English learners in Taiwan immediately resolve main verb versus reduced relative clause ambiguities in a similar way as native English speakers and (b) whether the learners at various English proficiency levels show diverse profiles. With analyses and syntheses of reading…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Roberts, Leah; Felser, Claudia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally ambiguous ("garden path") sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self-paced reading, we examined how advanced Greek-speaking learners of English and native speaker controls read sentences containing temporary subject-object…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Second Language Learning
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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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Jackson, Carrie N.; Bobb, Susan C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Using the self-paced reading paradigm, the present study examines whether highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German (English first language) use case-marking information during the on-line comprehension of unambiguous "wh"-extractions, even when task demands do not draw explicit attention to this morphosyntactic feature in German.…
Descriptors: German, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure, Reading Strategies
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Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
English sentences containing the universal quantifiers "each", "every", and "all" are highly complex structures in view of the subtleties of their scope properties and resulting ambiguities. This study explored the acquisition of universal quantifier sentences as reflected in the performance of three diverse college-level student groups on a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Deafness