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Ciochina, Ludmila – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language is a quintessentially human trait. Many decades of neurolinguistic research provided evidence of neural structures which specialize in complex linguistic and cognitive processes supporting human communications. Because the world is multilingual, (Crystal, 2010; de Bot, 2019) a prominent question related to brain processes supporting…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Processes
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Sun, Xin; Marks, Rebecca A.; Zhang, Kehui; Yu, Chi-Lin; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Nickerson, Nia; Chou, Tai-Li; Hu, Xiao-Su; Tardif, Twila; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – Developmental Science, 2023
How do early bilingual experiences influence children's neural architecture for word processing? Dual language acquisition can yield common influences that may be shared across different bilingual groups, as well as language-specific influences stemming from a given language pairing. To investigate these effects, we examined bilingual English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Shetreet, Einat; Chierchia, Gennaro; Gaab, Nadine – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Behavioral investigations of the acquisition of "some" have shown that children favor its logical interpretation ("some and possibly all"). Adults, however, use the pragmatic interpretation ("some but not all") derived by a scalar implicature. Certain experimental manipulations increase children's rates of adult-like…
Descriptors: Responses, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Adults, Children
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present study examines the representation and composition of meaning in scalar implicatures. Scalar implicature is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., "some") is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean "not all"). The experiments reported here investigate how the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
Bartlett, Laura B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This thesis investigates the syntactic status of adjectives in Spanish through a crossdisciplinary perspective, incorporating methodologies from both theoretical linguistics and neurolinguistics, specifically, event-related potentials (ERPs). It presents conflicting theories about the syntax of adjectives and explores the ways that the processing…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Syntax, Spanish, Neurolinguistics
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Mashal, N.; Faust, M.; Hendler, T.; Jung-Beeman, M. – Brain and Language, 2007
The neural networks associated with processing related pairs of words forming literal, novel, and conventional metaphorical expressions and unrelated pairs of words were studied in a group of 15 normal adults using fMRI. Subjects read the four types of linguistic expressions and decided which relation exists between the two words (metaphoric,…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Adults
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Cutica, Ilaria; Bucciarelli, Monica; Bara, Bruno G. – Brain and Language, 2006
The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right- and left-hemisphere-damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we study extralinguistic communication, that is communication performed only through gestures. The Cognitive Pragmatics Theory provides the theoretical framework:…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Brain
Leavell, Carol; Lewandowski, Lawrence – 1989
This study addressed the left hemisphere deficiency hypothesis, associated with reading disability, by accounting for attention and examining the relationship between dichotic listening results and neuropsychological deficits. Twenty reading-disabled (RD) and 20 non-reading-disabled (NRD) boys, aged 8-12, were administered the Verbal Dichotic…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis
Anderson, S. J.; And Others – 1985
A study of differential brain hemisphere involvement in second language acquisition is reported. The study examined the idea that the right hemisphere is progressively more involved the later the second language is acquired. Various techniques for monitoring hemispheric functioning are described, especially the Evoked Potential (EP) technique. In…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Afrikaans, Age Differences, Brain Hemisphere Functions