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Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara; Liu, Mingya; Schwab, Juliane – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Negation is a universal component of human language; polarity sensitivity (i.e., lexical distributional constraints in relation to negation) is arguably so while being pervasive across languages. Negation has long been a field of inquiry in psychological theories and experiments of reasoning, which inspired many follow-up studies of negation and…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphemes, Psycholinguistics, Semantics
Wingfield, Arthur – Brit J Disor Commun, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Nosenko, E. E. – 1975
The report contains a comparison of oral expression by the same experimental subjects under normal conditions and in a state of emotional stress. The study permits isolation of linguistic features of the formation of oral expression under emotional tension. This report is a translation of an article originally written in Russian. (NTIS/KM)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Articulation (Speech), Behavior Patterns, Distinctive Features (Language)
Stemmer, Nathan – 1976
One of the most important capacities which children employ when learning language is the capacity to generalize. A child who hears an utterance of a verbal expression while perceiving a particular object (or action, aspect, etc.) becomes normally able to apply the expression not only to this object but also to all those objects which, for him, are…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Bruce, Bertram C. – 1975
The paper discusses some of the "belief systems knowledge" used in language understanding. It begins with a presentation of a theory of personal causation. The theory supplies the tools to account for purposeful behavior. Using primitives of the theory, the social aspect of an action can be described. The social aspect is that which depends on…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
Dale, Philip S.; And Others – 1976
This research discusses the probability of child witnesses providing a complete and accurate description of an event. Children have been regarded as particularly inaccurate, highly suggestible, and basically unreliable in court cases. Psychologists have concluded that younger children are much more suggestible than older children or adults, and a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Court Litigation
Okby, Mamud M. – 1972
This discussion of verbal communication seeks to bring a new "unity" and order into the study of linguistics, to make linguistics truly an interdisciplinary science, and to communicate more effectively with the outside world, peopled by those who do not speak linguistic jargon. The particular linguistic problem here is an exploratory…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Information Processing
Pedersen, Paul – 1981
Symbolic meaning expressed by Chinese language characters is helpful to non-Chinese persons in understanding Chinese culture. The implicit metaphors in Chinese characters present pictographic descriptions of the meaning in the form of a story, situation, or symbol which places the otherwise abstract concept in a cultural context. All languages…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Chinese, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Training