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Ravi, Sunil Kumar; Chengappa, Shyamala K. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
The present study aimed at exploring the semantic and syntactic processing differences between native and second languages in 20 early high proficient Kannada--English bilingual adults through accuracy and reaction time (RT) measurements. Subjects participated in a semantic judgement task (using 50 semantically correct and 50 semantically…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Bilingualism, Adults
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Sharma, Dipti Misra – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper is a very preliminary attempt to look at how languages encode information. Different languages use different linguistic devices. Indian languages encode information morphologically or lexically. This provides flexibility in their word order. English, on the other hand, uses position for encoding information which results in a relatively…
Descriptors: English, Language Processing, Language, Foreign Countries