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Potter, Mary C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Considers two hypotheses about the association between equivalent words in a bilingual's two languages: (1) word association, which hypothesizes a direct association between words in the two languages and (2) concept mediation, which proposes the only connection between the two languages is via an underlying conceptual system. Reports on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cantonese, Concept Formation, English
Fraunfelder, U.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
The validity of using phoneme monitoring techniques to measure syntactic processing in French was validated by two experiments. Significant differences in the reaction times of 80 French-speaking academic professionals to phonemes immediately following reversible subject relative clauses and those following object relative clauses demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Componential Analysis, Context Clues, French
Mehler, Jacques; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
French sentences with a long ambiguous word just before a target phoneme led to faster reaction times than did sentences with a short unambigous word just before the target phoneme. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Processing
