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Direct linkStallings, Lynne M.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
Heavy-NP shift is the tendency for speakers to place long direct object phrases at the end of a clause rather than next to the verb. Though some analyses have focused on length of the direct object phrase alone, results from two experiments demonstrate that the length of the direct object relative to that of other phrases, and not the length of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Nouns, Verbs
Roll, Mikael; Horne, Merle; Lindgren, Magnus – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Right-edge boundary tones have earlier been found to restrict syntactic processing by closing a clause for further integration of incoming words. The role of left-edge intonation, however, has received little attention to date. We show that Swedish left-edge boundary tones selectively facilitate the on-line processing of main clauses, the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Intonation, Swedish
Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Haman, Ewa; de López, Kristine Jensen; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Szczerbinski, Marcin; van Hout, Angeliek; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Gavarró, Anna; Hobbs, Erin; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Katsos, Napoleon; Kunnari, Sari; Nitsiou, Chrisa; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Parramon, Xavier; Sauerland, Uli; Torn-Leesik, Reeli; van der Lely, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This cross-linguistic study evaluates children's understanding of passives in 11 typologically different languages: Catalan, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish. The study intends to determine whether the reported gaps between the comprehension of active and passive and between short and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Rajkumar, Rajakrishnan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the process of generating natural language text from an input, which is a communicative goal and a database or knowledge base. Informally, the architecture of a standard NLG system consists of the following modules (Reiter and Dale, 2000): content determination, sentence planning (or microplanning) and surface…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Language Processing, Models
O'Shannessy, Carmel; Meakins, Felicity – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Crosslinguistic influence has been seen in bilingual adult and child learners when compared to monolingual learners. For speakers of Light Warlpiri and Gurindji Kriol there is no monolingual group for comparison, yet crosslinguistic influence can be seen in how the speakers resolve competition between case-marking and word order systems in each…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sociolinguistics, Monolingualism, Word Order
Kail, Michele; Kihlstedt, Maria; Bonnet, Philippe – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study examined on-line processing of Swedish sentences in a grammaticality-judgement experiment within the framework of the Competition Model. Three age groups from 6 to 11 and an adult group were asked to detect grammatical violations as quickly as possible. Three factors concerning cue cost were studied: violation position (early vs. late),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Grammar, Linguistics
Onnis, Luca; Thiessen, Erik – Cognition, 2013
What are the effects of experience on subsequent learning? We explored the effects of language-specific word order knowledge on the acquisition of sequential conditional information. Korean and English adults were engaged in a sequence learning task involving three different sets of stimuli: auditory linguistic (nonsense syllables), visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Syllables, Stimuli, Probability
Wheeldon, Linda R.; Smith, Mark C.; Apperly, Ian A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
An online picture description methodology was used to investigate the interaction between lexical and syntactic information in spoken sentence production. In response to arrays of moving pictures, participants generated prepositional sentences, such as "The apple moves towards the dog," as well as coordinate noun phrase sentences, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Priming, Sentences, Sentence Structure
VanPatten, Bill; Borst, Stefanie – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
In this study, we examine explicit information and aptitude within processing instruction. Forty-six learners of German in their third semester of study were divided into two groups: those who received explicit information prior to treatment (+EI) and those who did not (-EI). Participants also took the grammatical sensitivity portion of the Modern…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
Mishra, Ramesh K.; Pandey, Aparna; Srinivasan, Narayanan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The scrambling complexity hypothesis based on working memory or locality accounts as well as syntactic accounts have proposed that processing a scrambled structure is difficult. However, the locus of this difficulty in sentence processing remains debatable. Several studies on multiple languages have explored the effect of scrambling on sentence…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Multilingualism
Keevallik, Leelo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Cataphoric pronouns have been characterized as being co-referential with a word that comes later. Considering that talk is produced in real time, with little benefit of knowing what is yet to come, participants understand cataphoric pro-forms to be projecting more talk. Projection is a crucial interactive resource, as it enables speakers to align…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Word Order
Lee-Ellis, Sunyoung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
In response to new theoretical claims and inconclusive empirical findings regarding relative clauses in East Asian languages, this study examined the factors relevant to relative clause production by Korean heritage speakers. Gap position (subject vs. object), animacy (plus or minus animate), and the topicality of head nouns (plus or minus…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Universals, Learning Strategies, Language Processing
Yoshimura, Yuki; MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study examined adult English native speakers' processing of sentences in which pronominal case marking conflicts with word order. Previous research has shown that English speakers rely heavily on word order for assigning case roles during sentence interpretation. However, in terms of cue reliability measures, we should expect English…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Form Classes (Languages), Word Order
Yoshimura, Yuki; MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Case marking is the major cue to sentence interpretation in Japanese, whereas animacy and word order are much weaker. However, when subjects and their cases markers are omitted, Japanese honorific and humble verbs can provide information that compensates for the missing case role markers. This study examined the usage of honorific and humble verbs…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Cues, Verbs, Grammar
Chang, Franklin – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Languages differ from one another and must therefore be learned. Processing biases in word order can also differ across languages. For example, heavy noun phrases tend to be shifted to late sentence positions in English, but to early positions in Japanese. Although these language differences suggest a role for learning, most accounts of these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Language Processing
