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Tamaoka, Katsuo; Ito, Takane; Mansbridge, Michael P. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The present study investigated the canonical position of instrumental and locative adverbial phrases in both Japanese sentences and noun phrases to determine whether the canonical positions are parallel. A series of sentence/phrase decision tasks were used to compare sentences with different word-orders, including sentences with SA"dv"OV…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Phrase Structure, Japanese, Nouns
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Wu, Hongmei; Chitrakara, Nirada – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Due to the fact that both the subject and the topic can occupy the initial position of the sentence, English subject is always deemed as the UNMARKED TOPIC (Lambrecht, 1994), while the topic is not always the subject. In accordance with Rizzi's (1997) topicalization, both the subject and the topicalized constituents can be topics. Many other…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Expository Writing
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Roberts, Jenny A.; Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Hunter, Madison – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The results of automatic machine scoring of the Index of Productive Syntax from the Computerized Language ANalysis (CLAN) tools of the Child Language Data Exchange System of TalkBank (MacWhinney, 2000) were compared to manual scoring to determine the accuracy of the machine-scored method. Method: Twenty transcripts of 10 children from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Scoring, Computational Linguistics, Child Language
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Lowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Although a large literature demonstrates that object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) are harder to process than subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs), there is less agreement regarding where during processing this difficulty emerges, as well as how best to explain these effects. An eye-tracking study by Staub, Dillon, and Clifton (2017)…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Language Processing
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Szewczyk, Jakub M.; Mech, Emily N.; Federmeier, Kara D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Can a single adjective immediately influence message-building during sentence processing? We presented participants with 168 sentence contexts, such as "His skin was red from spending the day at the …" Sentences ended with either the most expected word ("beach") or a low cloze probability completion ("pool"). Nouns…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Nouns, Language Processing, Diagnostic Tests
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Ayelet Sasson; Rachel Schiff; Barak Zluf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the correlation between L2 noun phrase comprehension and L2 reading comprehension, as well as the contribution of L2 noun phrase comprehension to L2 reading comprehension. One hundred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 11
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Runnion, Elizabeth A.; Pierce, Melissa; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the change in specific English microstructure features according to language ability in preschool Spanish-English dual language learners. Method: We collected English narratives from 22 Spanish-English dual language learners with typical language development (TD) and 22 Spanish-English dual language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish, English
Hye-ryeong Hahn – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The current study explores the effects of processing demands and proficiency on second language (L2) learners' acceptability judgment of wh-island sentences. A total of 65 adult Korean learners of English and ten native speakers (NSs) of English participated in an experiment that combined self-paced reading and acceptability judgment. They were…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Verbs, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ramzan, Muhammad; Aziz, Aamir; Ghaffar, Maimoona – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This research is analytical in nature and a comparative study of code-mixing and code-switching among the children of 2 to 5 belonging to the educated and uneducated background. The focus of the research is how the children mix and switch Punjabi and Urdu at their early age. This study of code-mixing and code-switching in Urdu and Punjabi is found…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Urdu, Indo European Languages, Preschool Children
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Elena I. Shpit; Philip M. McCarthy – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Virtually all researchers understand the requirement of presenting their studies in peer-reviewed English-medium journals. Russian scientific writers understand this necessity too; however, evidence suggests that these particular researchers are under-performing relative to similar non-native English speakers. The considerable challenge Russians…
Descriptors: Russian, Engineering Education, Researchers, English (Second Language)
Shutova, Marina Nikolaevna; Nesterova, Tatyana Vyacheslavovna; Naumova, Elena Olegovna – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
The article deals with teaching Russian intonation of declarative sentences to foreign students. The emphasis is placed on the way teaching materials are presented. In particular, the variable rows for intonation patterns in declarative sentences have been developed, as well as the teaching of syntagmatic segmentation and intonation patterns in…
Descriptors: Intonation, Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lorimor, Heidi; Stephens-Hecker, Nola; Miller, Carol – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Using an oral sentence production task, we investigated how preschoolers (N = 28) produce agreement with complex noun phrases and compared their performance to college students (N = 32) to determine whether preschoolers produce agreement patterns that are qualitatively similar to adults'. We also conducted corpus analyses to investigate relevant…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nouns, Phrase Structure, College Students
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Stegenwallner-Schütz, Maja; Adani, Flavia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examines the contribution of number morphology to language comprehension abilities among children with specific language impairment (SLI) and age-matched controls. It addresses the question of whether number agreement facilitates the comprehension accuracy of object-initial declarative sentences. According to the predictions of…
Descriptors: German, Language Impairments, Sentence Structure, Morphology (Languages)
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Aini, Desti Nur; Laksono, Kisyani; Ridwan, Agus – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
To comprehend a text, one needs to understand the relationship of various elements in it. The skill that helps connect the non-textual components to the textual ones is making inferences. This research aims to reveal different types of inferences made by the students with German-language proficiency of level B1. A qualitative research approach was…
Descriptors: Indonesian, German, Biculturalism, Literacy
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Garcia, Rowena; Roeser, Jens; Höhle, Barbara – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, a verb-initial language with a reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts that have been proposed to explain this difficulty: the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Tagalog, Cues, Morphology (Languages)
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