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AlRawi, Maather; AlShurafa, Nuha; Elyas, Tariq – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The paper describes Saudi English morphosyntactic and lexical features that are widely practiced among educated Saudis, who completed at least nine years of English language study. The occurrence of the morphosyntactic features is argued to be affected by the speakers' contact to the native English. Those who are in direct contact with Standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Syntax
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Tian, Ye; Maruyama, Takehiko; Ginzburg, Jonathan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
There is an ongoing debate whether phenomena of disfluency (such as filled pauses) are produced communicatively. Clark and Fox Tree ("Cognition" 84(1):73-111, 2002) propose that filled pauses are words, and that different forms signal different lengths of delay. This paper evaluates this Filler-As-Words hypothesis by analyzing the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Memory, English