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Kas, Bence; Lukacs, Agnes – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Hungarian is a language with morphological case marking and relatively free word order. These typological characteristics make it a good ground for testing the crosslinguistic validity of theories on processing sentences with relative clauses. Our study focused on effects of structural factors and processing capacity. We tested 43 typically…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Short Term Memory, Language Processing
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So, Wing Chee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to examine cross-cultural differences in gesture frequency and the extent to which exposure to two cultures would affect the gesture frequency of bilinguals when speaking in both languages. The Chinese-speaking monolinguals from China, English-speaking monolinguals from America, and Chinese-English bilinguals from…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Asian Culture, Cultural Differences
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Ueno, Mieko; Garnsey, Susan M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research on English relative clauses shows that ORs take longer to read (King & Just, 1991) and elicit anterior negativity between fillers and gaps (King & Kutas, 1995), which is…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Japanese
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Harris, Catherine L.; Bates, Elizabeth A. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Investigates whether syntax signals foregrounding/backgrounding structure in English. Backgrounded the main clause using progressive or pluperfect aspect. A rating study showed coreference was allowed more frequently for pronouns in main clauses when those clauses contained progressive or pluperfect aspect. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Phrase Structure, Pronouns