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Prediction and Memory Retrieval in Dependency Resolution
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Tzu-Yun Tung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Successful language comprehension requires the rapid deployment of working memory resources alongside the capacity to predict upcoming linguistic input. While previous research views these as competing factors, this dissertation explores a unified theory of processing complexity and evaluates the interaction between memory and prediction. The…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Prediction, Mandarin Chinese, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Investigating the Source of Neg-First Biases in Typology and Acquisition
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Danielle Burgess – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The tendency for negation to appear early in the sentence, dubbed the "Neg-First principle" by Horn (1989:452), has been observed in the domains of typology, language contact, and language acquisition. Based on evidence from these fields, scholars have speculated about the source and universality of Neg-First biases affecting language…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Morphemes
An Investigation in Acquiring Chinese Relative Clauses by Advanced Chinese L2 Learners
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Dai, Dexin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present study was focused on acquisition of Chinese relative clauses (RCs) by second language (L2) learners and whether this acquisition was influenced by RC linguistic features, learners' Chinese proficiency levels, and their first language (L1). Data were gathered via a Chinese reading comprehension test, a grammaticality judgment task, a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Orthographic Input Familiarity and Congruence Effects on Phono-Lexical Acquisition of Russian by Native Speakers of English
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Showalter, Catherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty with novel L2 phonological contrasts, limiting their ability to establish contrastive lexical representations of L2 words. It has been demonstrated that the availability of orthographic input (OI), and variables interacting with OI, can shape the inferences learners make about L2…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Linguistic Input
Language Change, Contact, and Koineization in Pacific Coast Athabaskan
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Spence, Justin David – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Pacific Coast Athabaskan (PCA) languages are part of the Athabaskan language family, one of the most geographically widespread in North America. Over a millennium ago Athabaskan-speaking groups migrated into northwestern California and southwestern Oregon from a northern point of origin several hundred miles away, but even after several…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Variation, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
Investigating ESL Learners' Lexical Collocations: The Acquisition of Verb + Noun Collocations by Japanese Learners of English
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Miyakoshi, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important part in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advanced levels, learners' difficulties with collocations have not been investigated in much detail so far. The present study examines ESL learners' use of verb-noun collocations, such as "take notes," "place an…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Pretests Posttests, Second Language Learning