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On the Parallel Deterioration of Lexico-Semantic Processes in the Bilinguals' Two Languages: Evidence from Alzheimer's Disease
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Costa, Albert; Calabria, Marco; Marne, Paula; Hernandez, Mireia; Juncadella, Montserrat; Gascon-Bayarri, Jordi; Lleo, Alberto; Ortiz-Gil, Jordi; Ugas, Lidia; Blesa, Rafael; Rene, Ramon – Neuropsychologia, 2012
In this article we aimed to assess how Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is neurodegenerative, affects the linguistic performance of early, high-proficient bilinguals in their two languages. To this end, we compared the Picture Naming and Word Translation performances of two groups of AD patients varying in disease progression (Mild and Moderate)…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Linguistics, Alzheimers Disease
When Language Experience Fails to Explain Word Reading Development: Early Cognitive and Linguistic Profiles of Young Foreign Language Learners
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Hu, Chieh-Fang; Schuele, C. Melanie – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Although language experience is a key factor in successful foreign language (FL) learning, many FL learners fail to achieve performance levels that were predicted on the basis of their FL experience. This retrospective study investigated early cognitive and linguistic correlates of learning English as a foreign language (FL) in a group of…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Prediction
Cognitive Task Complexity and Written Output in Italian and French as a Foreign Language
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Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
This paper reports on a study on the relationship between cognitive task complexity and linguistic performance in L2 writing. In the study, two models proposed to explain the influence of cognitive task complexity on linguistic performance in L2 are tested and compared: Skehan and Foster's Limited Attentional Capacity Model (Skehan, 1998; Skehan…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level
A Study of Young Children's Comprehension of Metaphorical Language.
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Cerbin, William – 1982
A study was conducted to examine some of the cognitive and linguistic factors that influence metaphor comprehension in young children. Presupposing that (1) the similarities between the topic and the vehicle in a metaphor comprise the metaphor's ground, (2) salience is the degree of prominence of a characteristic in relation to a concept, and (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Figurative Language
Speech Interactions with Linguistic, Cognitive, and Visuomotor Tasks
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Dromey, Christopher; Bates, Emily – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Lip movements were examined across several repetitive speaking conditions (speech alone and speaking concurrently with a linguistic, cognitive, or visuomotor challenge task) in 20 young adults. Performance in these nonspeech activities was also compared between isolated tasks and concurrent speech conditions. Linguistic challenges resulted in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistics, Young Adults, Linguistic Performance
Linguistic Structure and Non-linguistic Cognition: English and Russian Blues Compared.
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Laws, Glynis; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the influence of linguistic structure on non-linguistic cognition by comparing Russian and English behavior on tasks involving the color blue. Russians, who differentiate this region into "dark blue" and "light blue," were expected to separate blues more often than English subjects for whom the colors belong to one lexical category.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Color