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Cheng, Yesi; Cunnings, Ian; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine nonlocal agreement processing between native (L1) English speakers and Chinese-English second language (L2) learners, whose L1 lacks number agreement. We manipulated number marking with determiners ("the" vs. "that"/"these") to see how…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Processing, Native Speakers, English
Melebari, Alaa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The topic of this dissertation concerns the ways that (IN)ANIMACY distinctions interact with various sub-systems of the human language faculty, in particular, morpho-syntax. In Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), morpho-syntax and ANIMACY can be pit against each other directly on the same set of target words, allowing a close inspection of the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Syntax
Geurts, Bart; Katsos, Napoleon; Cummins, Chris; Moons, Jonas; Noordman, Leo – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Superlative quantifiers ("at least 3", "at most 3") and comparative quantifiers ("more than 2", "fewer than 4") are traditionally taken to be interdefinable: the received view is that "at least n" and "at most n" are equivalent to "more than n-1" and "fewer than n+1",…
Descriptors: Prediction, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Logical Thinking
Buck-Gengler, Carolyn J.; Menn, Lise; Healy, Alice F. – Brain and Language, 2004
Level ordering has proven inadequate as a morphological theory, leaving unexplained the experimental results taken to support it as a component of innate grammar-young children's acceptance of irregular plurals in English compounds. The present study demonstrates that these results can be explained by slower access to the grammatically preferred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Young Children

Varonis, Evangeline Marlos; Gass, Susan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1982
Analyzes data from natural settings and controlled experiments in order to describe native speakers' responses to questions asked by nonnatives and discusses what variables of a nonnative's speech might elicit these responses. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar