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To, Carol Kit Sum; Stokes, Stephanie; Man, Yonnie; T'Sou, Benjamin – Language and Speech, 2013
This study investigated the noun definitions given by Cantonese speakers at different ages. Definitional responses on six concrete nouns from 1075 children aged 4;10 to 12;01 and 15 adults were analyzed with reference to the semantic content and the syntactic form. Results showed that conventional definitions produced by Cantonese adult speakers…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Nouns, Definitions, Age Differences
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Jolly, Helen R.; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Speech, 2008
The theory of syntactic bootstrapping proposes that children can use syntax to infer the meanings of words. This paper presents experimental evidence that children are also able to use word inflections to infer word reference. Twenty-four- and 30-month-olds were tested in a preferential looking experiment. Children were shown a pair of novel…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Toddlers, Semantics
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Nespor, Marina; Sandler, Wendy – Language and Speech, 1999
Focuses on the interaction of phonology with syntax, and to some extent, with meaning in a natural sign language. Adopts a theory of prosodic phonology, testing both its assumptions, which had been based on data from spoken language, and its predictions on the language of the Deaf community in Israel. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
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Greasley, Peter; Sherrard, Carol; Waterman, Mitch – Language and Speech, 2000
Reports on two experiments comparing the adequacy of naturalistic procedures in emotion-display research with standard procedures. The first experiment explored samples of naturally-occurring emotional speech with free-choice emotion labels, and later with labels from a standard set. The second compared valency ratings of words presented…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
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Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Kolk, Herman H. J. – Language and Speech, 1998
Three experiments are reported that showed effects of "structure priming," the tendency to repeat syntactic structure across successive sentences. These effects were demonstrated in Dutch, a previously untested language. All experiments studied spoken sentence production. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: College Students, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Fon, Janice; Johnson, Keith – Language and Speech, 2004
This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervals, Syllables, Foreign Countries