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Peterson, Daniel Wyde – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The objective of this research is to build automated models that emulate VerbNet, a semantic resource for English verbs. VerbNet has been built and expanded by linguists, forming a hierarchical clustering of verbs with common semantic and syntactic expressions, and is useful in semantic tasks. A major drawback is the difficulty of extending a…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, English, Computational Linguistics
Batel, Essa – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
This study tested the effect of constraining sentence context on word recognition time (RT) in the first and second language. Native (L1) and nonnative (L2) speakers of English performed self-paced reading and listening tasks to see whether a semantically-rich preceding context would lead to the activation of a probable upcoming word prior to…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception
Sungjin Nam – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation presents various machine learning applications for predicting different cognitive states of students while they are using a vocabulary tutoring system, DSCoVAR. We conduct four studies, each of which includes a comprehensive analysis of behavioral and linguistic data and provides data-driven evidence for designing personalized…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Student Evaluation, Learning Analytics
Gullifer, Jason W.; Titone, Debra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
We investigated whether cross-language activation is sensitive to shifting language demands and language experience during first and second language (i.e., L1, L2) reading. Experiment 1 consisted of L1 French-L2 English bilinguals reading in the L2, and Experiment 2 consisted of L1 English-L2 French bilinguals reading in the L1. Both groups read…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, French
Bach, Nguyen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Dependency structures represent a sentence as a set of dependency relations. Normally the dependency structures from a tree connect all the words in a sentence. One of the most defining characters of dependency structures is the ability to bring long distance dependency between words to local dependency structures. Another the main attraction of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Sentences, English
Nicoladis, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The purpose of this article was to test the predictions of a speech production model of cross-linguistic influence in French-English bilingual children. A speech production model predicts bidirectional influence (i.e., bilinguals' greater use of periphrastic constructions like the hat of the dog relative to monolinguals in English and reversed…
Descriptors: Speech, French, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics
Tu, Yuancheng – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The fundamental problem faced by automatic text understanding in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is to identify semantically related pieces of text and integrate them together to compute the meaning of the whole text. However, the principle of compositionality runs into trouble very quickly when real language is examined with its frequent…
Descriptors: English, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Gonzalez Lopez, Veronica – Second Language Research, 2012
The present study examines the production outcomes of late second language (L2) learners in order to determine if the mechanisms that allow the creation of phonetic categories remains available during the lifespan, as the Speech Language Model (SLM) claims. In addition, the study focuses on the type of interaction that exists between the first…
Descriptors: Sentences, Articulation (Speech), Phonetics, Code Switching (Language)
Hatzidaki, Anna; Branigan, Holly P.; Pickering, Martin J. – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
We report four experiments that examined whether bilinguals' production of one language is affected by the syntactic properties of their other language. Greek-English and English-Greek highly proficient fluent bilinguals produced sentence completions following subject nouns whose translation had either the same or different number. We manipulated…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Bilingualism
Wu, Xihong; Yang, Zhigang; Huang, Ying; Chen, Jing; Li, Liang; Daneman, Meredyth; Schneider, Bruce A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine why perceived spatial separation provides a greater release from informational masking in Chinese than English when target sentences in each of the languages are masked by other talkers speaking the same language. Method: Monolingual speakers of English and Mandarin Chinese listened to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese
Tanner, Darren; McLaughlin, Judith; Herschensohn, Julia; Osterhout, Lee – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Here we report findings from a cross-sectional study of morphosyntactic processing in native German speakers and native English speakers enrolled in college-level German courses. Event-related brain potentials were recorded while participants read sentences that were either well-formed or violated German subject-verb agreement. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning
Areas Da Luz Fontes, Ana B.; Schwartz, Ana I. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
We examined whether bilinguals' conceptual representation of homonyms in one language are influenced by meanings in the other. One hundred and seventeen Spanish-English bilinguals generated sentences for 62 English homonyms that were also cognates with Spanish and which shared at least one meaning with Spanish (e.g., plane/"plano"). Production…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Monolingualism, Probability
Kam, Xuan-Nga Cao; Stoyneshka, Iglika; Tornyova, Lidiya; Fodor, Janet D.; Sakas, William G. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Recent challenges to Chomsky's "poverty of the stimulus" thesis for language acquisition suggest that children's primary data may carry "indirect evidence" about linguistic constructions despite containing no instances of them. Indirect evidence is claimed to suffice for grammar acquisition, without need for innate knowledge. This article reports…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, English, Indo European Languages
Libben, Maya R.; Titone, Debra A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Current models of bilingualism (e.g., BIA+) posit that lexical access during reading is not language selective. However, much of this research is based on the comprehension of words in isolation. The authors investigated whether nonselective access occurs for words embedded in biased sentence contexts (e.g., A. I. Schwartz & J. F. Kroll,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Human Body
Seidl, Amanda; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Developmental Science, 2006
In a landmark study, Jusczyk and Aslin (1995 ) demonstrated that English-learning infants are able to segment words from continuous speech at 7.5 months of age. In the current study, we explored the possibility that infants segment words from the edges of utterances more readily than the middle of utterances. The same procedure was used as in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Infants, Language Acquisition, English