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September Hope Cowley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
All communication systems rely on sets of rules that must generally be followed for successful communication to be possible; in the case of human language, these rules are given by the grammar. However, despite these rules, there is considerable variation that has been noted across the grammar. In this dissertation, I explore one understudied…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Oral Language, Grammar, Syntax
Michele Stone – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The effects of fluency-based instruction and accuracy-based instruction on contingency adduction were assessed using an alternating treatments design. Stimulus equivalence tasks were used to measure contingency adduction. Stimulus classes were composed of arbitrary visual forms. One treatment condition consisted of teaching fast, fluent responding…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Mastery Learning
Iyad Ghanim – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Early and late bilinguals both differ in the speed with which they comprehend language or in their processing of sentences compared to monolinguals. This is possibly a result of cross-language interference, differential allocation of cognitive resources, or some other difference in language-dependent processes. This dissertation presents research…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Semantics
Brandon F. Heimberg – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Bilingual advantage literature proposes that bilinguals perform significantly better on tasks of executive functioning when compared to monolingual individuals. This study explored the theory of the bilingual advantage when individuals were exposed to an increased cognitive load due to emotionally valenced stimuli. Due to the limited capacity of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Short Term Memory, Psychology, Monolingualism
Bronson Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Vocabulary researchers have started expanding their assessment toolbox by incorporating timed tasks and psycholinguistic instruments (e.g., priming tasks) to gain insights into lexical development (e.g., Elgort, 2011; Godfroid, 2020b; Nakata & Elgort, 2020; Vandenberghe et al., 2021). These timed sensitive and implicit word measures differ…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Decision Making, Vocabulary Development
Ryo Maie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Skill acquisition theorists conceptualize second language (L2) learning as the acquisition of a set of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills. The dominant view in skill acquisition theory is to regard L2 skill acquisition as a three-stage process "from initial representation of knowledge through initial changes in behavior to eventual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Learning Processes
Myeongeun Son – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Analysis of second language (L2) learners' language development can allow valid and reliable assessment of the learners' L2 linguistic knowledge, which can enable the teachers and researchers to choose appropriate teaching or experimental materials (Bardovi-Harlig & Bofman, 1989; Wolfe-Quintero et al., 1997). However, most language development…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
Lyon, Bethany Alice – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Prospective memory (PM) refers to memory for future intentions (e.g. remembering to press a button when you see an animal word). Researchers classify PM intentions in the laboratory as focal or nonfocal primarily in two ways. One way, task-appropriateness, refers to how the processing for the intention relates to the processing required for an…
Descriptors: Cues, Task Analysis, Memory, Intention
Lowry, Mark D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Bilingual language control refers to how bilinguals are able to speak exclusively in one language without the unintended language intruding. Two prominent verbal theories of bilingual language control have been proposed by researchers: the inhibitory control model (ICM) and the lexical selection mechanism model (LSM). The ICM posits that…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
Alsaigh, Tahani N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines second language activation in Arabic-English bilinguals for whom Arabic was the first language. Modeling its design on Colome (2001), the research compared processing in a picture-phoneme matching task for Arabic-English bilinguals tested in the United States or in Saudi Arabia to determine whether activation of English…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Native Language
Zellou, Georgia Eve – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Experimental studies of the articulation, acoustics, and perception of nasal and pharyngeal consonants and adjacent vowels were conducted to investigate nasality in Moroccan Arabic (MA). The status of nasality in MA is described as coarticulatorily complex, where two phoneme types (pharyngeal segments and nasal segments) yield similar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Acoustics, Vowels
Roon, Kevin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation proposes a dynamical computational model of the timecourse of phonological parameter setting. In the model, phonological representations embrace phonetic detail, with phonetic parameters represented as activation fields that evolve over time and determine the specific parameter settings of a planned utterance. Existing models of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Phonetics, Oral Language
Roessger, Kevin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In work-related, instrumental learning contexts the role of reflective activities is unclear. Kolb's (1985) experiential learning theory and Mezirow's transformative learning theory (2000) predict skill-adaptation as a possible outcome. This prediction was experimentally explored by manipulating reflective activities and assessing participants'…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Skill Development, Reflection, Experiential Learning
Granena, Gisela – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Very high-level, functional ability in foreign languages is increasingly important in many walks of life. It is also very rare, and likely requires an early start and/or a special aptitude. This study investigated the extent to which aptitude for explicit learning, defined as "analytic ability" and aptitude for implicit learning, defined…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Spanish
Okuno, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has demonstrated that focused perceptual training facilitates L2 learners' segmental perception and spoken word identification. Hardison (2003) and Motohashi-Saigo and Hardison (2009) found benefits of visual cues in the training for acquisition of L2 contrasts. The present study examined factors affecting perception and production…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Japanese, Native Language, North American English
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