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Brennan, Susan E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines what linguistic devices speakers use to make an entity salient in a discourse and how they re-refer to discourse entities moving in and out of focus. Speakers' center of attention was manipulated via a videotaped basketball game. Speakers referred to prominent entities as subjects; when they referred to them as objects, they repeated the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, College Students
On-Line Sentence Interpretation in Spanish-English Bilinguals: What Does It Mean to Be "in Between"?

Hernandez, Arturo E; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Investigates the real-time costs of sentence processing in early Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilinguals use an amalgam of monolingual strategies in choosing the agent of a sentence. The reaction time data reveal a larger language-specific component than the choice data. (37 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, College Students

Murphy, Victoria A. – Second Language Research, 1997
A study investigated whether adult learners of a second language would judge grammaticality differently in visual and aural judgment tasks. Four groups were tested: English first-language, French first-language, English second-language, and French second-language. Results indicate judgments were slower and less accurate in the aural condition,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, English