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Yang, Jianfeng; Shu, Hua; McCandliss, Bruce D.; Zevin, Jason D. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Learning to read in any language requires learning to map among print, sound and meaning. Writing systems differ in a number of factors that influence both the ease and the rate with which reading skill can be acquired, as well as the eventual division of labor between phonological and semantic processes. Further, developmental reading disability…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Semantics, Reading Difficulties, Chinese
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Degani, Tamar; Tokowicz, Natasha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Relatively little is known about the role of ambiguity in adult second-language learning. In this study, native English speakers learned Dutch-English translation pairs that either mapped in a one-to-one fashion (unambiguous items) in that a Dutch word uniquely corresponded to one English word, or mapped in a one-to-many fashion (ambiguous items),…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Figurative Language, English
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Akker, Evelien; Cutler, Anne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
Examines whether listeners efficiently exploit sentence prosody to direct attention to words bearing sentence accent. Four studies are reported. Results suggest that less efficient mapping of prosody to semantics may be one way in which nonnative listening fails to equal native listening. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Listening Skills