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Charlène Gilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research in first-language (L1) sentence processing has found evidence that language comprehenders use binding condition A as a filter to rule out noun phrases that are binding-inaccessible before proceeding with the task of finding the correct antecedent. Sturt (2013) notes that this strategy does not appear to apply to advanced speakers of…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Language Research, English (Second Language)
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Anastasia Kobzeva; Dave Kush – Cognitive Science, 2024
Filler-gap dependency resolution is often characterized as an active process. We probed the mechanisms that determine where and why comprehenders posit gaps during incremental processing using Norwegian as our test language. First, we investigated why active filler-gap dependency resolution is suspended inside "island" domains like…
Descriptors: Grammar, Expectation, Norwegian, Form Classes (Languages)
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Gregory D. Keating – Language Learning, 2025
For Spanish nouns, masculine gender is unmarked and feminine is marked. Effects of markedness on gender agreement processing are inconsistent, possibly owing to differences between online methods. This study presents a reanalysis of eye-tracking data from Keating's (2022) study on the processing of noun-adjective gender agreement in speakers of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Native Language
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Eva Portelance; Michael C. Frank; Dan Jurafsky – Cognitive Science, 2024
Interpreting a seemingly simple function word like "or," "behind," or "more" can require logical, numerical, and relational reasoning. How are such words learned by children? Prior acquisition theories have often relied on positing a foundation of innate knowledge. Yet recent neural-network-based visual question…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Grammar, Visual Aids, Language Acquisition
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Regina Hert; Juhani Järvikivi; Anja Arnhold – Cognitive Science, 2024
We report the results of one visual-world eye-tracking experiment and two referent selection tasks in which we investigated the effects of information structure in the form of prosody and word order manipulation on the processing of subject pronouns "er" and "der" in German. Factors such as subjecthood, focus, and topicality,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Grammar
Kevin Kwong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the syntax of case(-value)-assignment ([kappa]-ASSIGNMENT) and Phi(-feature)-agreement ([phi]-AGREEMENT) in nominal and verbal domains, with an emphasis on nomino-verbal infinitives and their cross-clausal dependencies, examining Kashmiri before extending to Hungarian. Although unrelated, both languages exhibit…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Language Classification, Phrase Structure, Syntax
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Emeryse Emond; Rushen Shi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
We investigated toddlers' understanding of the hierarchical syntactic configurations that constrain the referential meanings of reflexives and pronouns. In particular, reflexives must co-refer with the c-commanding antecedent within the local domain (Principle A) (e.g., He[subscript i] washes himself[subscript i]. John[subscript i] knows that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Eye Movements
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Yanxiao Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
The article revisits the canonical (Dem>Num>A>N) and non-canonical (A>Dem>Num>N & Dem>A>Num>N) prenominal patterns in Mandarin Chinese, from the perspective of the Labeling Algorithm. It shows that the syntactic distribution of adjectives are different, depending on the attributive-predicative sources and the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Mandarin Chinese, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Form Classes (Languages)
Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
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Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Naomi Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is about the learnability of different generative, Separationist approaches to nominal morphosyntax. The core of my investigation is number, gender, and declension class, as manifested across nouns, adnominals (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, and quantifiers), and articles. An extreme position would require that all of…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Patterns
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Syihabuddin Syihabuddin; Nurul Murtadho; Yusring Sanusi Baso; Hikmah Maulani; Shofa Musthofa Khalid – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Assessing whether a book is relevant or suitable for use in teaching materials is not an easy and haphazard matter, various methods and theories have been offered by researchers in studying this matter. Taking a study of the context of textbooks, researchers found the urgency that textbooks are a foundation for education, socialization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Jessica Velez-Aviles – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In two visual world eye-tracking experiments, this dissertation examines the role of literacy on predictive processing during spoken language comprehension. Previous studies have shown that comprehenders can use morphosyntactic cues available in the input to generate predictions about upcoming information. Recent key findings also suggest that…
Descriptors: Literacy, Socioeconomic Status, Cues, Prediction
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Xiangjun Deng; Xiaobei Zheng; Haoyan Ge – First Language, 2024
The acquisition of quantifiers is a central topic in cognitive science. The present study investigated the emergence, frequency, and non-target-like production of the universal quantifiers "all," "every," and "each" in child English from a linguistic perspective, based on the data from longitudinal naturalistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Children
Sigriður Saeunn Sigurðardottir – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language forecasting, i.e., predicting the future state of a language, has long been regarded with a fair amount of skepticism. This is partly due to language change often being considered sudden, random, unpredictable, and viewed as the result of complex interacting factors that are not well understood (e.g., Keller 1994:72; Bauer 1994:25; Labov…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Indo European Languages, Sociolinguistics, Futures (of Society)
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