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Sachs, Alyssa Nicole Yuriko; language impairments – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: The most common cause of aphasia is a left middle cerebral artery stroke affecting the left perisylvian region of the brain. The perisylvian region is critical for supporting phonological processing, and damage to this region results in difficulty with retrieving and manipulating speech sounds. The impact of weakened phonology has been…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurological Impairments, Phonology, Grammar
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Maki Kubota; Jorge González Alonso; Merete Anderssen; Isabel Nadine Jensen; Alicia Luque; Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares; Yanina Prystauka; Øystein A. Vangsnes; Jade Jørgen Sandstedt; Jason Rothman – Language Learning, 2024
The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Dialects, Grammar, Language Processing
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Stanojevic, Miloš; Brennan, Jonathan R.; Dunagan, Donald; Steedman, Mark; Hale, John T. – Cognitive Science, 2023
To model behavioral and neural correlates of language comprehension in naturalistic environments, researchers have turned to broad-coverage tools from natural-language processing and machine learning. Where syntactic structure is explicitly modeled, prior work has relied predominantly on context-free grammars (CFGs), yet such formalisms are not…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Natural Language Processing
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Williams, John N. – Language Learning, 2020
Over the past decades, research employing artificial grammar, sequence learning, and statistical learning paradigms has flourished, not least because these methods appear to offer a window, albeit with a restricted view, on implicit learning processes underlying natural language learning. But these paradigms usually provide relatively little…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Grammar, Sequential Learning, Natural Language Processing
Kyle Robert Swanson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adult learners of a new language (L2) tend not to achieve target-like knowledge and performance, so the cognitive status of L2s has long been debated. While monolingual native (L1) speakers robustly apply their grammatical knowledge to input as it unfolds, there are competing claims about whether L2 speakers also do so reflexively (Dekydtspotter,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Wang, Wentao; Vong, Wai Keen; Kim, Najoung; Lake, Brenden M. – Cognitive Science, 2023
Neural network models have recently made striking progress in natural language processing, but they are typically trained on orders of magnitude more language input than children receive. What can these neural networks, which are primarily distributional learners, learn from a naturalistic subset of a single child's experience? We examine this…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Linguistic Input, Longitudinal Studies, Self Concept
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Morgan-Short, Kara; Finestrat, Irene; Luque, Alicia; Abugaber, David – Language Learning, 2022
In this exploratory study, we considered the method of combining event-related potentials (ERPs) and source attributions as a means for examining the explicit or implicit nature of second language (L2) knowledge and processing. We recorded electroencephalograms while L2 Spanish participants judged phrase structure and subject-verb agreement…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Intuition
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Grey, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examined individual-level variability in N400 and P600 ERP correlates of native and nonnative language sentence processing of semantic and grammar information. Twenty-six native English-speaking learners of Spanish as a second language were tested. Participants completed sentence reading tasks in English and Spanish during EEG…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Semantics
Sarah Frances Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Bilinguals are able to compose expressions across their languages with seeming ease. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as "code-switching," has challenged both theoretical models in linguistics as well as neurobiological models of language processing. And yet, our models of the bilingual brain and the language processing mechanism…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Input
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Natasha Tokowicz; Tessa Warren; Leida Tolentino – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Adult second language learners arrive at the language learning situation with an already formed first language grammar system in place. The study of cross-language similarity across the first and second languages explores how the similarities and differences in the two languages make learning more or less difficult, particularly for adult…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Jeonghwa Cho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical features, and sentences. For a truly generalizable theory of psycholinguistics, the languages surveyed should not be constrained to English (Garnham, 1994; Norcliffe…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean
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Divjak, Dagmar; Milin, Petar; Medimorec, Srdan; Borowski, Maciej – Cognitive Science, 2022
Although there is a broad consensus that both the procedural and declarative memory systems play a crucial role in language learning, use, and knowledge, the mapping between linguistic types and memory structures remains underspecified: by default, a dual-route mapping of language systems to memory systems is assumed, with declarative memory…
Descriptors: Memory, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Lauren Covey; Robert Fiorentino; Alison Gabriele – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates the processing of "wh"-dependencies in English by native speakers and advanced Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners. We examined processing at a filled gap site that was in a licit position (non-island) or located inside an island, a grammatically unlicensed position. Natives showed N400 in the non-island condition,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
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Suzuki, Yuichi; Jeong, Hyeonjeong; Cui, Haining; Okamoto, Kiyo; Kawashima, Ryuta; Sugiura, Motoaki – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
In this study, neural representation of adult second language (L2) speakers' implicit grammatical knowledge was investigated. Advanced L2 speakers of Japanese living in Japan, as well as L1 Japanese speakers, performed a word-monitoring task (proposed as an implicit knowledge test) in the MRI scanner. Behavioral measures were obtained from…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Prediction
Alex Warstadt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Data-driven learning uncontroversially plays a role in human language acquisition--how large a role is a matter of much debate. The success of artificial neural networks in NLP in recent years calls for a re-evaluation of our understanding of the possibilities for learning grammar from data alone. This dissertation argues the case for using…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Ethics
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