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Jing Gao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I investigate the Mandarin "you"-existential sentence. My focus is on its syntax. I also discuss in less detail some semantic peculiarity of the "you"-existential. I begin my investigation of the syntax of "you"-existentials by first looking into what they are not. To this end, I present five…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Jiayi Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speakers display considerable variability in language use and representations: they may have different pronunciations of the same word, different intended meanings for the same phrases, and different sets of syntactic constraints in their internalized grammars. Comprehenders adapt to such variability by constantly updating their expectations for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Syntax
Byung-Doh Oh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Decades of psycholinguistics research have shown that human sentence processing is highly incremental and predictive. This has provided evidence for expectation-based theories of sentence processing, which posit that the processing difficulty of linguistic material is modulated by its probability in context. However, these theories do not make…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien – Language Learning, 2019
This study evaluated second language (L2) phraseological development using a directional association measure (delta P) that assesses the directional formulaicity of recurrent multiword combinations. The study examined (a) whether learners develop their sensitivity to the distributional properties of recurrent multiword combinations as their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency, Essays
Koizumi, Masatoshi; Imamura, Satoshi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The effects of syntactic and information structures on sentence processing load were investigated using two reading comprehension experiments in Japanese, a head-final SOV language. In the first experiment, we discovered the main effects of syntactic and information structures, as well as their interaction, showing that interaction of these two…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Syntax, Sentences
Prayudha, P. – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
Perceptive verbs have important function, especially in Cognitive Linguistics perspective, because these verbs are directly related to real experience. Cognitive linguistics focuses on the study of the relationship between language, mind, and socio-physical experience. Thus, this paper discusses how the lexical semantic characteristics…
Descriptors: Verbs, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Correlation
Mohammed, Rania – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Multi-word sequences are important components of language because they are building blocks that can be used to create long stretches of discourse. They are word combinations that have particular importance because of their co-occurrence and function in discourse that suggest that they are stored and retrieved from memory as a whole rather than as…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis
Smirnova, Elena A.; Biktemirova, Ella I.; Davletbaeva, Diana N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This paper is devoted to the study of correlation between semantic and pragmatic potential of a compound word, which functions in informal speech, and the mechanisms of secondary nomination, which realizes the potential of semantic-pragmatic features of colloquial compounds. The relevance and the choice of the research question is based on the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Semantics, Pragmatics, Statistical Analysis
Ivanova, Iva; Ferreira, Victor S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Four picture-description experiments investigated if syntactic formulation in language production can proceed with only minimal working memory involvement. Experiments 1-3 compared the initiation latencies, utterance durations, and errors for syntactically simpler picture descriptions (adjective-noun phrases, e.g., "the red book") to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Short Term Memory, Correlation, Phrase Structure
Sung, Yao-Ting; Cha, Jih-Ho; Tu, Jung-Yueh; Wu, Ming-Da; Lin, Wei-Chun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
A number of previous studies on Chinese relative clauses (RC) have reported conflicting results on processing asymmetry. This study aims to revisit the prevalent debate on whether subject-extracted RCs (SRC) or object-extracted RCs (ORC) are easier to process by using the eye-movement technique. In the current study, the data are analyzed in terms…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Phrase Structure, Psycholinguistics, Eye Movements
Gablasova, Dana; Brezina, Vaclav; McEnery, Tony – Language Learning, 2017
This article focuses on the use of collocations in language learning research (LLR). Collocations, as units of formulaic language, are becoming prominent in our understanding of language learning and use; however, while the number of corpus-based LLR studies of collocations is growing, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of factors…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Second Language Learning
Lu, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the interface between music and language in "Huju", which is a Shanghai dialect based regional opera. Chapter I is a short introduction. Chapter II presents a thorough review of the studies on linguistic tone and music tune, and provides descriptive background information about "Huju" and Shanghai…
Descriptors: Music, Intonation, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
Armstrong, Andrew; Bulkes, Nyssa; Tanner, Darren – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Numerous studies have demonstrated that native Mandarin speakers have pervasive difficulties processing L2 English agreement morphology. However, less is known about the lexical and morphological cues that may modulate Mandarin speakers' sensitivity to English number agreement. To investigate this, we examined subject-verb agreement processing in…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Processing, Mandarin Chinese, Nouns
Sutton, Brett R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores parallels between Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Determiner Phrase (DP) semantics, syntax, and morphology--including similarities in case-assignment, subject-verb and possessor-possessum agreement, subject and possessor semantics, and overall syntactic structure--in first language acquisition. Applying theoretical…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Semantics