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Velan, Hadas; Frost, Ram – Cognition, 2011
Recent studies suggest that basic effects which are markers of visual word recognition in Indo-European languages cannot be obtained in Hebrew or in Arabic. Although Hebrew has an alphabetic writing system, just like English, French, or Spanish, a series of studies consistently suggested that simple form-orthographic priming, or…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Written Language, Word Recognition
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Temperley, David – Cognition, 2007
Gibson's Dependency Locality Theory (DLT) [Gibson, E. 1998. "Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies." "Cognition," 68, 1-76; Gibson, E. 2000. "The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity." In A. Marantz, Y. Miyashita, & W. O'Neil (Eds.), "Image,…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Nouns, English, Sentence Structure
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Liu, In-Mao; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Noting that the naming of Chinese characters involves lexical access not present in alphabetic orthographies, this study sought to locate the frequency effects in lexical decisions and naming of Chinese characters. Results indicated that a clear frequency/regularity interaction exists in regular and lexical naming, but this interaction is…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Processing, Language Skills, Pattern Recognition
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Yamada, Jun – Cognition, 2004
Do different L1 (first language) writing systems differentially affect word identification in English as a second language (ESL)? Wang, Koda, and Perfetti [Cognition 87 (2003) 129] answered yes by examining Chinese students with a logographic L1 background and Korean students with an alphabetic L1 background for their phonological and orthographic…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Second Language Learning