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Wiens, Arthur N.; And Others – Linguistics, 1976
A study was made investigating whether or not the two-person conversational speech behavior (mean duration of utterance, mean reaction time, latency and frequency of interruption) of an individual who is fluent in two languages is the same or different when he is conversing in each of these two languages. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Slowiaczek, Louisa M.; Soltano, Emily G.; Bernstein, Hilary L. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The influence of lexical stress and/or metrical stress on spoken word recognition was examined. Two experiments were designed to determine whether response times in lexical decision or shadowing tasks are influenced when primes and targets share lexical stress patterns (JUVenile-BIBlical [Syllables printed in capital letters indicate those…
Descriptors: Cues, Word Recognition, Memory, Phonology
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
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Yuille, John C.; Holyoak, Keith – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1974
This study examines the role of verb imagery and noun phrase concreteness in the recognition and recall of sentences. The results indicate that concrete noun phrases are more easily remembered while verb imagery had no effect. (DE)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Learning Processes, Memory
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Just, Marcell Adam; Brownell, Hiram H. – Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1974
This study examines whether or not abstract or concrete prose material is easier to learn and remember. The results indicate that concrete paragraphs were consistently faster to learn and easier to remember. (DE)
Descriptors: Language, Language Patterns, Language Research, Learning Processes
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
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Hoemann, Harry W.; Koenig, Teresa J. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Analysis of the performance of beginning American Sign Language students, who had only recently learned the manual alphabet, on a task in which proactive interference would build up rapidly on successive trials, supported the view that different languages have separate memory stores. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Code Switching (Language), English, Interference (Language)
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Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. – 1973
The research reported in this paper concerns an initial study asking two questions: Is second language learning like first language learning? Is there a change in learning rate or process with age? A nonrandom sample of children aged 4 to 9 years was studied. Subjects were 31 English-speaking children in Geneva, Switzerland, who were in schools…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1973
This document contains 21 reports on speech research relating to the following areas: phonology, speech development, speech perception, phonetics, short-term memory of tactile stimuli, reading, linguistic and paralinguistic interchange, computer processing of EMG (electromyographic) signals, pitch determination by adaptive autocorrelation method,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language)
Wardell, David – 1985
Cloze procedure, a testing method which systematically deletes words in written prose and then measures the accuracy of the information is reviewed from a historical viewpoint. Redundancy is placed in a verbal context and can be noted on three separate levels of language: (1) surface syntactic structure; (2) deep syntactic structure; and (3)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Cues
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1973
This document, containing 15 articles and 2 abstracts, is a report on the current status and progress of speech research. The following topics are investigated: phonological fusion, phonetic prerequisites for first-language learning, auditory and phonetic levels of processing, auditory short-term memory in vowel perception, hemispheric…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Feedback
Schmitt, Norbert; Schmitt, Diane Rae – Thai TESOL Bulletin, 1993
This article discusses second language vocabulary learning strategies and includes an analysis and classification of possible strategies and the report of a study conducted among second language learners in Japan. Research on vocabulary learning strategies is synthesized into two lists of strategies: 14 methods for initial learning of a new word's…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1971
This report contains fourteen papers on a wide range of current topics and experiments in speech research, ranging from the relationship between speech and reading to questions of memory and perception of speech sounds. The following papers are included: "How Is Language Conveyed by Speech?;""Reading, the Linguistic Process, and…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech, Communication (Thought Transfer)