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Hurtado, Nereyda; Gruter, Theres; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
Research with monolingual children has shown that early efficiency in real-time word recognition predicts later language and cognitive outcomes. In parallel research with young bilingual children, processing ability and vocabulary size are closely related within each language, although not across the two languages. For children in dual-language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Toddlers, Efficiency, Language Processing
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Tasseva-Kurktchieva, Mila – Second Language Research, 2015
So far, the comprehension and production language modes have typically been studied separately in generative second language acquisition research, with the focus shifting from one to the other. This article revisits the asymmetric relationship between comprehension and production by examining the second language (L2) acquisition of the noun phrase…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Semantics, Slavic Languages
Cavaliere, Roberto – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Discusses a study of the expressive qualities of oral language. Results suggest that there is a natural rather than an arbitrary relationship between words and their meanings. Practical applications of this theory of phonetic symbolism in the area of commercial advertising are presented. (CFM)
Descriptors: Advertising, Etymology, Expressive Language, Language Processing
Le Feal, K. Dejean – 1982
Impromptu speech is characterized by the simultaneous processes of ideation (the elaboration and structuring of reasoning by the speaker as he improvises) and expression in the speaker. Other elements accompany this characteristic: division of speech flow into short segments, acoustic relief in the form of word stress following a pause, and both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
Seleskovitch, Danica – 1982
Impromptu speech is heard only once, at a rate of perception that depends on the speaker's delivery, and is specifically adapted to the listeners. These features trigger cognitive activities that facilitate translation. Impromptu speech is characterized by a constant interconnection between cognitive competence and language competence and between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Correlation, Discourse Analysis