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The Effects of Construction Probability on Word Durations during Spontaneous Incremental Sentence Production
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Kuperman, Victor; Bresnan, Joan – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
In a series of seven studies, this paper examines acoustic characteristics of the spontaneous speech production of the English dative alternation ("gave the book to the boy/ the boy the book") as a function of the probability of the choice between alternating constructions. Probabilistic effects on the acoustic duration were observed in the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Acoustics, Probability
Cross-Linguistic Influence in French-English Bilingual Children's Possessive Constructions
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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
Shared Information Structure: Evidence from Cross-Linguistic Priming
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Fleischer, Zuzanna; Pickering, Martin J.; McLean, Janet F. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study asked whether bilinguals construct a language-independent level of information structure for the sentences that they produce. It reports an experiment in which a Polish-English bilingual and a confederate of the experimenter took turns to describe pictures to each other and to find those pictures in an array. The confederate produced a…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Sentence Structure, Nouns
Production of Complex Sentences in Monologues and Dialogues
Rochester, S. R.; Gill, Judith – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Earlier version of this paper was delivered to the 1972 Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass. (RS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, English, Monologs
Spoken Language Vocabulary and Structural Frequency Count: English Data Analyses.
Miron, Murray S. – 1973
The report is a frequency analysis of vocabulary and sentence patterns in the English language. The corpora used are a media sample, a discussion session, elicited sentences, and words elicited for frame sentences. The outputs are the following frequency tables: (1) Semantic frequency of combined corpus (media, discussion, elicited sentences)…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis, English, Etymology
Perspectives on Discourse: Proceedings from the 1998 and 1999 Discourse Symposia at Vaxjo University. Acta Wexionesia, No. 2.
Virtanen, Tuija, Ed.; Maricic, Ibolya, Ed. – Perspectives on Discourse, 2000
This volume brings together the majority of lectures and papers presented at the 1998 and 1999 discourse symposia at Vaxjo University. Part one, "Four Perspectives on Discourse," offers a matrix perspective on narrative, a cross cultural perspective on academic rhetoric, a cognitive perspective on informational discourse, and a construction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Volume Fourteen.
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Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Violations of Frege's Principle and Their Significance for Contrastive Semantics" (Dafydd Gibbon); "Writing the Contrastive Grammar of English and Dutch. The Treatment of Modal Notions" (Flor Aarts and Herman Wekker); "The Theory and Methodology…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch