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Peer reviewedGernsbacher, Morton Ann; Robertson, Rachel R. W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
In a study of knowledge activation and sentence mapping, subjects read stories that described concrete actions, and then the content of the stories was manipulated (i.e. stories were written that implied different emotional states). It is suggested that the more emotionally evoking situations one encounters the more memory traces are stored and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Emotional Response, Fiction
Download full textEklundh, Kerstin Severinson – 1992
Word processors have been shown to favor a local perspective over a global perspective on the text during writing. Recently, advanced outline processors or "idea processors" have appeared that allow the writer to represent and handle structural aspects of a text so that the writer may compose the text within an outline and experiment with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Peer reviewedHartford, Beverly – World Englishes, 1989
Presents an analysis of non-native English verbs of saying constructions, such as "discuss about" and "explain about," as they are realized in Nepali English. It is suggested that the analysis of Nepali English constructions offer important insights into second language acquisition and language change. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
Henriksen, Carol – 1990
Two papers on "fag(sprog)lig Kommunikation"--languages for special purposes (LSP)--are presented. The first paper, in Danish, presents an alternative to the current structuralist oriented approach to the analysis of LSP as a kind of language in its own right and of texts written in this special kind of language. The approach is based on a more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Danish
Peer reviewedLevenston, E. A.; And Others – Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1986
Analyzes in detail some of the incorrect responses made by subjects (culturally disadvantaged Israeli children) performing on cloze tests and suggests what may be inferred about the cognitive processing employed by the subjects that leads them to make such responses. Results indicate the need for further detailed linguistic analysis of responses…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Griffiths, Patrick – 1986
A study explored the use of a text-copying task for the determination of syntactic constituent structure. It was predicted that the task would be a naturalistic, reasonably direct, and sensitive psycholinguistic research method. In two experiments, 70 subjects wrote out copies of typed passages. The points where they paused and looked back to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Foreign Countries
