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Hübscher, Iris; Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Igualada, Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar – First Language, 2017
This study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children's sensitivity to lexical, intonational and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children's understanding of speaker certainty and uncertainty across languages have focused on the comprehension of lexical markers, and little is known about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Child Language, Spanish
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Becker, Misha – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
This paper addresses the problem of learning the class of raising verbs (e.g. seem). These verbs are potentially problematic for learners in that unlike typical main verbs, these verbs do not stand in a semantic relation with any Noun Phrase (NP) arguments. Moreover, a second class of verbs, known as control verbs, shares certain distributional…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, Nouns
Cohen, Andrew D. – 1970
This paper attempts to place bilingual schooling in a sociolinguistic context by relating language use in school to language use in the community. The city treated here, Redwood City, California, has a growing Mexican American population and was one of the 23 California cities selected for bilingual schooling through Title VII; programs were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language