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Lane, Liane Wardlow; Ferreira, Victor S. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
Three experiments tested theories of syntactic representation by assessing "stem-exchange" errors ("hates the record"[right arrow]"records the hate"). Previous research has shown that in stem exchanges, speakers pronounce intended nouns ("REcord") as verbs ("reCORD"), yielding syntactically well-formed utterances. By "lexically based" theories,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Verbs, Nouns, Syntax
Freeman, Geremy Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The question of whether or not linguistic sounds might convey inherent meaning has never conclusively been resolved. This is an empirical study weighing evidence for and against the existence of phonosemantics, also known as sound symbolism or iconism. Contrary to well established principles such as the arbitrary nature of the sign and the double…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Semantics, Hypothesis Testing, Interviews
Kaiser, Elsi; Runner, Jeffrey T.; Sussman, Rachel S.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognition, 2009
We present four experiments on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in picture noun phrases with and without possessors (e.g. "Andrew's picture of him/himself, the picture of him/himself"). The experiments (two off-line studies and two visual-world eye-tracking experiments) investigate how syntactic and semantic factors guide the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Moxey, Linda M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
This paper reports three experiments that test the Presupposition-Denial account of complement set reference. According to the theory, complement set focus arises when focus is on the difference between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a large presupposed amount. We call this difference the shortfall. In this paper, what is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Patterns, Language Research, Effect Size
Papafragou, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2006
One of the tasks of language learning is the discovery of the intricate division of labour between the lexical-semantic content of an expression and the pragmatic inferences the expression can be used to convey. Here we investigate experimentally the development of the semantics-pragmatics interface, focusing on Greek-speaking five-year-olds'…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Inferences, Pragmatics
Snodgrass, Joan Gay; Jarvella, Robert J. – Psychonomic Science, 1972
Study supported by a National Institute of Mental Health grant to New York University. (VM)
Descriptors: English, Experiments, Information Processing, Language Patterns

Purcell, E. T. – Phonetica, 1971
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Environmental Influences, Experiments, Intonation
James, Carlton T.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. (VM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experiments, Information Processing, Information Storage
Sherman, Mark A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported in part by a graduate traineeship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to the author and by a grant from the Advanced Research Project Agency to the Harvard University Center for Cognitive Studies. (VM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Deep Structure, Experiments, Information Processing
Weitzman, Raymond S. – 1970
This study, the ninth in the series "Studies in the Phonology of Asian Languages," aims to analyze the phonological properties of the accentual system of Standard Colloquial Japanese on the basis of acoustic-phonetic data, especially data obtained through use of the sound spectrograph and pitch extractor. Chapters deal with functional distinctions…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Experiments
Kunihira, Shirou
Phonetic symbolism implies that there are intrinsic relationships between sounds employed in words and the meanings of the words. Research in phonetic symbolism and how it operates has implications for foreign language learning. Such research seeks to determine whether one's capacity for correctly guessing the meanings of words in another language…
Descriptors: English, Experiments, Guessing (Tests), Japanese
CLARK, JOHN L.D. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL FIVE RELATED EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED IN AREAS PERTAINING TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. THE FIRST TWO EXPERIMENTS SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY OF 38 ENGLISH PHONEMES TO NATIVE FRENCH LISTENERS AT EACH OF TWO ACCEPTABILITY LEVELS--PHONEMIC AND…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Lickley, Robin J.; Schepman, Astrid; Ladd, D. Robert – Language and Speech, 2005
In the first part of this study, we measured the alignment (relative to segmental landmarks) of the low F0 turning points between the accentual fall and the final boundary rise in short Dutch falling-rising questions of the form "Do you live in [place name]?" produced as read speech in a laboratory setting. We found that the alignment of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Intonation, Phonetics, Indo European Languages
Duncan, Lynne G.; Cole, Pascale; Seymour, Philip H. K.; Magnan, Annie – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Phonological awareness is thought to become increasingly analytic during early childhood. This study examines whether the proposed developmental sequence (syllable[right arrow]onset-rime[right arrow]phoneme) varies according to the characteristics of a child's native language. Experiment 1 compares the phonological segmentation skills of English…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading Skills, French, Reading Instruction
Ohala, John J. – 1970
The dominant trend in phonetics today--due to a large extent to generative phonology--is to discover the brain mechanisms underlying the observed behavior in speech. Among other things there is interest in attempting to find out how motor programs are stored latently, selected, activated into muscular contractions, controlled, and tailored for…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes