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Yi-Lun Weng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding how a child's language system develops into an adult-like system is a central question in language development research. An increasingly influential account proposes that the brain constantly generates top-down predictions and matches them against incoming input, with higher-level cognitive models serving to minimize prediction…
Descriptors: Child Language, Prediction, Diagnostic Tests, Eye Movements
Joshua Buffington – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For many people, learning a second language as an adult is a challenging endeavor. Much interest in the study of adult second language learning has concerned the type of input that learners receive in their second language, with findings suggesting that second language learners are often exposed to a register of speech called 'foreigner talk' that…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Memory
David Abugaber – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Learning new languages is a complex task involving both explicit and implicit processes (i.e., that do/do not involve awareness). Understanding how these processes interact is essential to a full account of second language (L2) learning, but accounts vary as to whether explicit processes help (e.g., DeKeyser, 2007), hinder (e.g., Ellis &…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Artificial Languages, Task Analysis
Elisabeth Wilhelmina Maria Hopman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Generalization is the ability to apply regularities to novel instances, for example, correctly guessing that the plural for the novel English word 'wug' should be 'wugs'. Early language learners make overgeneralization errors like 'mouses', applying regularities beyond their attested uses. Theories concerned with the question of how learners learn…
Descriptors: Generalization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Maya L. Barzilai – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation examines the relative effects of phonetic salience and phonological prominence on speech sound processing. Three test cases, respectively, investigate the processing of consonants versus vowels by speakers of German, Hebrew, and Amharic; the processing of aspirated versus unaspirated stops by speaker of Spanish and Thai; and the…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Language Processing, Speech Communication
Dye, Melody – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While information theory is typically considered in the context of modern computing and engineering, its core mathematical principles provide a potentially useful lens through which to consider human language. Like the artificial communication systems such principles were invented to describe, natural languages involve a sender and receiver, a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Languages, Computer Software
Federica Bulgarelli – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A well-known challenge for language learners is that the input is typically produced by a variety of speakers, each with distinct vocal characteristics (Liberman, Harris, Hoffman, & Griffith, 1957). Accordingly, many studies have indicated that talker variability leads to processing costs for learners across the lifespan (Jusczyk & Pisoni,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing