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Schaebbicke, Katharina; Seeliger, Heiko; Repp, Sophie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
The goal of this study is to provide better empirical insight into the licensing conditions of a large set of NPIs in German so that they can be used as reliable diagnostics in future research on negation-related phenomena. Experiment 1 tests the acceptability of 60 NPIs under semantic operators that are expected to license superstrong, strong,…
Descriptors: German, Phrase Structure, Semantics, Language Research
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, and difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand…etc., and another corpus of specialized…
Descriptors: Translation, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure
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Boonraksa, Thidakul; Naisena, Suparvadee – English Language Teaching, 2022
Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign language teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely to facilitate both second language teachers and students to produce correct and appropriate collocations. The purposes of this research were 1)…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Cangir, Hakan; Büyükkantarcioglu, S. Nalan; Durrant, Philip – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Several attempts have been made to illustrate the organization of the monolingual mental lexicon and each model proposed so far has highlighted different aspects of lexical processing. What they have in common is the fact that their depictions rely on single lexical items and paradigmatic relations come to the fore in their explanations. Hoey's…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Turkish, Priming, Language Processing
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Lesniewska, Justyna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Hughes, Sean; Lyddy, Fiona; Kaplan, Robin – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
The present study examined the possibility that the language and response format used in self-report questionnaires influences how readily people endorse misconceptions. Four versions of a 40-item misconception test were administered to European ("n" = 281) and North American ("n" = 123) psychology and nonpsychology…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Psychology, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students)