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Tanya Voinova – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has led to a significant civilian involvement in Israel, particularly among immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who began to provide humanitarian assistance, including interpreting. Highlighting the interrelation between translation and migration, I argue that the war strongly affects…
Descriptors: Russian, Translation, Foreign Countries, War
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Yazbec, Angele; Kaschak, Michael P.; Borovsky, Arielle – Cognitive Science, 2019
Children and adults use established global knowledge to generate real-time linguistic predictions, but less is known about how listeners generate predictions in circumstances that semantically conflict with long-standing event knowledge. We explore these issues in adults and 5- to 10-year-old children using an eye-tracked sentence comprehension…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Prediction, Adults
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Ruiz Rosendo, LucĂ­a; Barghout, Alma; Martin, Conor H. – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a training programme targeted at United Nations (UN) staff interpreters who go on field missions. The UN deploys staff interpreters to ensure effective multilingual communication in field missions. Whilst being professional interpreters, however, these interpreters do not have any formal…
Descriptors: Translation, International Organizations, Language Processing, Second Languages
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Desideri, Lorenzo; Bonifacci, Paola – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
Empirical evidence collected so far has revealed that the bilingual advantage cannot be reduced to a single component of the executive functioning, and point to the need to understand the effects of bilingual experience on cognition as influencing a wider family of mental processes, including, but not limited to, cognitive control. The present…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Adults, Monolingualism
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Hussey, Erika K.; Harbison, J. Isaiah; Teubner-Rhodes, Susan E.; Mishler, Alan; Velnoskey, Kayla; Novick, Jared M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Cognitive control refers to adjusting thoughts and actions when confronted with conflict during information processing. We tested whether this ability is causally linked to performance on certain language and memory tasks by using cognitive control training to systematically modulate people's ability to resolve information-conflict across domains.…
Descriptors: Memory, Improvement, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
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Kim, Albert; Sikos, Les – Brain and Language, 2011
Recent ERP studies report that implausible verb-argument combinations can elicit a centro-parietal P600 effect (e.g., "The hearty meal was devouring..."; Kim & Osterhout, 2005). Such eliciting conditions do not involve outright syntactic anomaly, deviating from previous reports of P600. Kim and Osterhout (2005) attributed such P600 effects to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Conflict
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Frenzel, Sabine; Schlesewsky, Matthias; Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Conflicts in language processing often correlate with late positive event-related brain potentials (ERPs), particularly when they are induced by inconsistencies between different information types (e.g. syntactic and thematic/plausibility information). However, under certain circumstances, similar sentence-level interpretation conflicts (inanimate…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Conflict, Language Processing
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del Rio, David; Maestu, Fernando; Lopez-Higes, Ramon; Moratti, Stephan; Gutierrez, Ricardo; Maestu, Ceferino; del-Pozo, Francisco – Neuropsychologia, 2011
During sentence processing there is a preference to treat the first noun phrase found as the subject and agent, unless marked the other way. This preference would lead to a conflict in thematic role assignment when the syntactic structure conforms to a non-canonical object-before-subject pattern. Left perisylvian and fronto-parietal brain networks…
Descriptors: Syntax, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Conflict
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Salomo, Dorothe; Graf, Eileen; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Three- and four-year-old children were asked predicate-focus questions ("What's X doing?") about a scene in which an agent performed an action on a patient. We varied: (i) whether (or not) the preceding discourse context, which established the patient as given information, was available for the questioner; and (ii) whether (or not) the patient was…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Young Children, Role, Questioning Techniques
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Christianson, Kiel; Luke, Steven G.; Ferreira, Fernanda – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We report a replication and extension of Ferreira (2003), in which it was observed that native adult English speakers misinterpret passive sentences that relate implausible but not impossible semantic relationships (e.g., "The angler was caught by the fish") significantly more often than they do plausible passives or plausible or implausible…
Descriptors: Adults, Native Speakers, English, Semantics
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van de Meerendonk, Nan; Kolk, Herman H. J.; Vissers, Constance Th. W. M.; Chwilla, Dorothee J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
In the language domain, most studies of error monitoring have been devoted to language production. However, in language perception, errors are made as well and we are able to detect them. According to the monitoring theory of language perception, a strong conflict between what is expected and what is observed triggers reanalysis to check for…
Descriptors: Nouns, Figurative Language, Conflict, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Roelofs, Ardi; Piai, Vitoria; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Semantics
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January, David; Trueswell, John C.; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
For over a century, a link between left prefrontal cortex and language processing has been accepted, yet the precise characterization of this link remains elusive. Recent advances in both the study of sentence processing and the neuroscientific study of frontal lobe function suggest an intriguing possibility: The demands to resolve competition…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Conflict, Language Processing
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Berman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
In this study we argue that narrative storytelling and expository discussion, as 2 distinct discourse genres, differ both in linguistic expression and in their underlying principles of organization--schema-based in narratives and category-based in exposition. Innovative analyses applied to 160 personal-experience narratives and expository essays…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, Children
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McCann, Joanne; Peppe, Sue – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2003
Background: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders present with unusual or odd-sounding prosody. Despite this widely noted observation, prosodic ability in autism spectrum disorders is often perceived as an under-researched area. Aims: This review seeks to establish whether there is a prosodic disorder in autism, what generalizations can…
Descriptors: Conflict, Autism, Suprasegmentals, Language Skills