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Stephanie K. Rich – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the role of memory in language processing, and specifically how interference during lexical encoding can result in downstream interference during retrieval. The dissertation merges insights from both the sentence processing literature as well as the study of memory in non-sentential contexts and focuses on two factors…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Interference (Language), Recall (Psychology), Psycholinguistics
Xiaolong Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Formulaic expressions (FEs), such as conventional collocations (e.g., fresh air) and phrases (e.g., take a break), constitute a significant part of language use in our daily lives (Erman & Warren, 2000). FEs are defined as multiword units that holistically represent a single meaning, and they are likely stored and retrieved as unanalyzed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure, Grammar
Colvin, Michelle B. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Language comprehension is remarkable in that we adapt easily to different forms of language use, from adapting to speakers' dialects, meanings of new slang words, and fictional worlds described in novels. While there is growing evidence comprehenders adapt their expectations for text during reading, the nature of these adaptation mechanisms…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Usage, Language Processing, Error Patterns
Tong Li – ProQuest LLC, 2019
How people learn to read is an interesting question which has been investigated by many studies with various approaches. Some recent studies have related learning to read with domain-general abilities and have found a positive relationship between statistical learning and learning to read, as well as between procedural learning and learning to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Beginning Reading, Orthographic Symbols
Investigating the Interplay between Morphosyntax and Memory for Events: The Case of Past Participles
Yanina Prystauka – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The representational product of sentence comprehension is the result of the interplay between episodic and semantic memory and our knowledge of the grammatical devices of our language which guide how we retrieve information from these systems. Past participles, being a part of speech derived from verbs but used in a prenominal position (e.g. words…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Correlation, Semantics
Kari K. Stouffer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
High level reading comprehension is a process that results in a reader's semantic interpretation of a text, or mental model of that text, referred to as the "reader's situation model." Individual differences in readers' verbal working memory resources, as measured by reading span tasks (RST), and operation span tasks (OST), have shown to…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Executive Function, Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Information
Baierschmidt, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Lexical inferencing is considered a listening strategy that is commonly employed by advanced EFL (English as a Foreign Language) listeners and a factor that contributes to successful listening comprehension. However, investigations of the factors that influence inferencing success in listening as well as how much each factor contributes to success…
Descriptors: Inferences, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mohammed R. A. A. Jouhar – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this meta-synthesis is to formulate a hypothesis concerning the importance of diacritical marks in Arabic word recognition for typically developed Arabic readers. I propose that the importance of diacritical marks in Arabic word recognition varies as a function of grade level, stimuli frequency, and text affiliation. Stimuli…
Descriptors: Arabic, Distinctive Features (Language), Meta Analysis, Semantics
Zane, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This project used Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) to explore neurophysiological brain responses to prepositional phrases involving concrete and abstract reference nouns (e.g., "plate" and "moment," respectively) after the presentation of objects with varying spatial features. Prepositional phrases were headed by "in"…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurology
Shin, Eun Young – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the real-time sentence processing of Korean both by native speakers and learners in terms of the availability and the effectiveness of different types of information in the structural prediction. Built on the crosslinguistically contrastive findings between Japanese in Yoshida (2006) and Chinese in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Nouns, Korean
Enhancing Maintenance and Generalization of Incremental Rehearsal through Theory-Based Modifications
Petersen-Brown, Shawna M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The attainment of basic early literacy skills at an early age is one way to ensure children become proficient readers as adults. Word recognition is an important basic early literacy skill that is related to reading fluency and overall reading competency. Incremental rehearsal (IR) is a flashcard technique that has produced strong outcomes for a…
Descriptors: Generalization, Word Recognition, Intervention, Instructional Materials
Chan, Ho Leung – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a language processing perspective on the study of second language acquisition (SLA) of tense and aspect. Of special interest are the universal vis-a-vis language-specific dimensions of temporal and aspectual semantics involved. According to the Aspect Hypothesis (AH, e.g. Andersen & Shirai, 1994), the initial…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Williams, Clay H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of semantic and phonetic radicals on Chinese character decoding by high-intermediate level Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) learners. The results of the main study (discussed in Chapter #5) suggest that the CFL learners tested have a well-developed semantic pathway to recognition; however, their…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Phonetics, Semantics, Personality
Nelson, Annie Hirt – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to add to the knowledge of reading development by investigating reading processes from a neurocognitive and educational perspective. This study seeks to provide some insight about reading development for the neuroscience field. The goals of this study are to attain a clearer picture of reading development by using both…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Age, Semantics
Manuel, Carlos J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study assesses reading processes and/or strategies needed to deploy deep processing that could push learners towards syntactic-based constructions in L2 classrooms. Research has found L2 acquisition to present varying degrees of success and/or fossilization (Bley-Vroman 1989, Birdsong 1992 and Sharwood Smith 1994). For example, learners have…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Reading Processes, Psychometrics