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Honorifics: A Sociocultural Verb Agreement Cue in Japanese Sentence Processing
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Yoshimura, Yuki; MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Case marking is the major cue to sentence interpretation in Japanese, whereas animacy and word order are much weaker. However, when subjects and their cases markers are omitted, Japanese honorific and humble verbs can provide information that compensates for the missing case role markers. This study examined the usage of honorific and humble verbs…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Cues, Verbs, Grammar
Applying the Competition Model to Bilingualism.
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MacWhinney, Brian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Describes the "Competition Model" (Bates and MacWhinney, 1982) dealing with second-language sentence processing by bilinguals and research that has further developed theories dealing with the model. (CB)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Interlanguage