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Childers, Jane B.; Paik, Jae H.; Flores, Melissa; Lai, Gabrielle; Dolan, Megan – Cognitive Science, 2017
Extending new verbs is important in becoming a productive speaker of a language. Prior results show children have difficulty extending verbs when they have seen events with varied agents. This study further examines the impact of variability on verb learning and asks whether variability interacts with event complexity or differs by language.…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Research, Learning Processes, Toddlers
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Al-Quran, Majed – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
Building up messages as a cognitive activity within the linguistic multi-level system is the result of the interaction between the various components of this system. Yet, this interactive process occurring in the language user's mind while encoding can vary from person to person. Likewise, it also differs in different recipients while decoding.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes
Povey, John, Ed. – 1976
This is the tenth annual issue of the UCLA TESL (teaching English as a second language) workpapers. It includes the following papers: (1) "An Attempt to Model the Role of Cognitions in Language Learning," by R.L. Allwright; (2) "A Comparison of Language Proficiency Tests," by J. Donald Bowen; (3) "Language Study Through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Hypnosis