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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
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Howe, Mark L.; Gagnon, Nadine; Thouas, Lisa – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
The effects of within- versus between-languages (English-French) study and test on rates of bilingual children's and adults' true and false memories were examined. Children aged 6 through 12 and university-aged adults participated in a standard Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory task using free recall and recognition. Recall results showed…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Memory, Bilingualism, English