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Chi Zhang; Sarah Bernolet; Robert J. Hartsuiker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We studied the role of discourse coherence relations on structure formulation in sentence production by examining whether a connective, an essential signal of coherence relations, modulates the tendency for speakers to reuse sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). We further examined three possible modulating factors: the type of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Sentence Structure, Priming
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Muylle, Merel; Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Language Learning, 2020
Several studies found cross-linguistic structural priming with various language combinations. Here, we investigated the role of two important domains of language variation: case marking and word order, for transitive and ditransitive structures. We varied these features in an artificial language learning paradigm, using three different artificial…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Priming, Language Processing, Language Variation
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Berghoff, Robyn – Second Language Research, 2022
In the online processing of long-distance wh-dependencies, native speakers have been found to make use of intermediate syntactic gaps, which has the effect of facilitating dependency resolution. This strategy has also been observed in second language (L2) speakers living in an L2 immersion context, but not in classroom L2 learners. This research…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Indo European Languages
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Paape, Dario; Avetisyan, Serine; Lago, Sol; Vasishth, Shravan – Cognitive Science, 2021
We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Grammar, Bayesian Statistics
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White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
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Ehsan Solaimani; Florence Myles; Laurel Lawyer – Second Language Research, 2024
Many studies have explored the second language (L2) acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) and whether L2 speakers transfer a resumptive strategy from first language (L1) to L2. While evidence seems to suggest that there are significant L1-L2 differences in the processing of RCs, relatively little is known about the source of non-target-like L2…
Descriptors: French, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study investigates the effect of explicit teaching of segmentals vs. prosody on the quality of interpreting by Farsi-to-English interpreter trainees. Participants were native speakers of Farsi and BA students of English translation and interpreting in Iran, who were assigned to one of three groups. No differences in English language skills…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sakarias, Maria; Flecken, Monique – Cognitive Science, 2019
We study how people attend to and memorize endings of events that differ in the degree to which objects in them are affected by an action: "Resultative" events show objects that undergo a visually salient change in state during the course of the event (peeling a potato), and "non-resultative" events involve objects that undergo…
Descriptors: Memory, Grammar, Finno Ugric Languages, Indo European Languages
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Andreou, Maria; Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria – First Language, 2022
Although a considerable number of studies have shown D(eterminer) elements, i.e. determiners and pronominal clitics, to be particularly vulnerable to impairment in monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), little is known about the use of appropriate or/and grammatically correct referring expressions in the children's…
Descriptors: Greek, Russian, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
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Radulescu, Silvia; Wijnen, Frank; Avrutin, Sergey – Language Learning and Development, 2020
From limited evidence, children track the regularities of their language impressively fast and they infer generalized rules that apply to novel instances. This study investigated what drives the inductive leap from memorizing specific items and statistical regularities to extracting abstract rules. We propose an innovative entropy model that…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Learning Processes
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Lange, Violaine Michel; Messerschmidt, Maria; Boye, Kasper – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This paper investigates the difference between the production of grammatical determiners and lexical determiners in the production of adjective-noun phrases (NPs) in Danish. Models of sentence processing (Garrett in "Psychology of learning and motivation," Academic press, New York, pp 133-177, 1975; Bock in "J Mem Lang"…
Descriptors: Grammar, Indo European Languages, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages)
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Poletiek, Fenna H.; Monaghan, Padraic; van de Velde, Maartje; Bocanegra, Bruno R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Language is infinitely productive because syntax defines dependencies between grammatical categories of words and constituents, so there is interchangeability of these words and constituents within syntactic structures. Previous laboratory-based studies of language learning have shown that complex language structures like hierarchical center…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Grammar, Generalization
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Kaufeld, Greta; Ravenschlag, Anna; Meyer, Antje S.; Martin, Andrea E.; Bosker, Hans Rutger – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
During spoken language comprehension, listeners make use of both knowledge-based and signal-based sources of information, but little is known about how cues from these distinct levels of representational hierarchy are weighted and integrated online. In an eye-tracking experiment using the visual world paradigm, we investigated the flexible…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Cues, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Ureel, Jim J. J.; Diels, Ella; Robert, Isabelle S.; Schrijver, Iris – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
As expert intercultural communicators, translators constantly face the challenges of comprehending and producing language that is stylistically appropriate in various communicative contexts. To scale these challenges, they must acquire advanced levels of sociolinguistic competence. Although sociolinguistic competence is considered an essential…
Descriptors: Translation, Sociolinguistics, Undergraduate Students, Indo European Languages
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Lemhöfer, Kristin; Schriefers, Herbert; Indefrey, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
In 3 ERP experiments, we investigated how experienced L2 speakers process natural and correct syntactic input that deviates from their own, sometimes incorrect, syntactic representations. Our previous study (Lemhöfer, Schriefers, & Indefrey, 2014) had shown that L2 speakers do engage in native-like syntactic processing of gender agreement but…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning
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