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Caplan, David; Walters, Gloria S. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
The functional architecture of the verbal processing resource system was studied by testing aphasic patients in Canada and Boston for their abilities to use syntactic structure in sentence comprehension in isolation and under dual-task conditions. Results indicate that the processing resource system underlying syntactic processing is separate from…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aphasia, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes

Konieczny, Lars – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Presents a fully incremental model that accounts for attachment preferences by the linear order of lexical heads in the surface structure and their thematic properties. Discusses the principle of "parameterised head attachment" and a serial variant on the basis of three online experiments on noun phrase and prepositional phrase…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Foreign Countries, German

Trahey, Martha – Second Language Research, 1996
Investigates the role of primary linguistic data in the acquisition of linguistic competence. The study examines the knowledge of adverb placement of francophone students learning English as a Second Language (ESL) one year after their exposure to a flood of data on adverb placement in English. Results indicate no change in the subjects'…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Analysis of Variance, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)