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The Effects of Age of Immersion and Working Memory on Second Language Processing of Island Constraints: An Eye-Movement Study
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Jung, Sehoon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the central questions in recent second language processing research is whether the types of parsing heuristics and linguistic resources adult L2 learners compute during online processing are qualitatively similar or different from those used by native speakers of the target language. While the current L2 processing literature provides…
Descriptors: Age, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Metalinguistic Negation in English and Arabic
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Nedwick, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the truth-functional semantic operator which has received the most attention…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Morphemes, Classification, Morphology (Languages)
A Comparative Study of Developmental Outcomes in Web-Based and Classroom-Based German Language Education at the Post-Secondary Level: Vocabulary, Grammar, Language Processing, and Oral Proficiency Development
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Isenberg, Noelle Ariane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A number of universities offer fully web-based language courses. Many others are considering this option. Yet it remains unclear whether web-based courses can be as comprehensively effective as classroom-based courses. And, if so, what might an effective web-based language course look like? This dissertation considers the German Online at PSU…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis, Internet