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Denic, Milica; Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane; Szymanik, Jakub – Cognitive Science, 2022
The vocabulary of human languages has been argued to support efficient communication by optimizing the trade-off between simplicity and informativeness. The argument has been originally based on cross-linguistic analyses of vocabulary in semantic domains of content words, such as kinship, color, and number terms. The present work applies this…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Vocabulary, Semantics, Linguistics
Naomi Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is about the learnability of different generative, Separationist approaches to nominal morphosyntax. The core of my investigation is number, gender, and declension class, as manifested across nouns, adnominals (adjectives, numerals, demonstratives, and quantifiers), and articles. An extreme position would require that all of…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Patterns
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Yoshiki Fujiwara; Hiroyuki Shimada – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children's consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives: the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
Shannon Bryant – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This thesis investigates the choice between reflexive pronouns (e.g., "herself") and personal pronouns (e.g., "her") in the expression of subject coreference in English locative prepositional phrases. A persistent puzzle for syntactic theories of pronoun licensing, commonly known as binding theories, it has long been observed…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Syntax
Megan Gotowski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
How do children learn the meaning of words like "pretty" and "tall," which are not only gradable and context dependent (Kennedy & McNally 2005), but encode speaker subjectivity? Despite their complex semantics (Stephenson 2007; Lasersohn 2009; Bylinina 2014), these and other adjectives like them, are some of the most…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Ly Thi Phuong Tran; Long Kim Le – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Motion is a universal concept in common human perception. In the word system of a language, verb is inherently a very complex real word, both in terms of grammar and semantics, that complexity is due to the influence of the semantics of this word. However, in most of the previous studies, the authors often only focused on studying single word…
Descriptors: Motion, Classification, Form Classes (Languages), Dictionaries
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Janna-Deborah Drummer; Claudia Felser – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates the hypothesis that non-isomorphic syntax-semantics mappings pose a greater challenge for non-native (L2) than for native (L1) speakers, focusing on a previously understudied phenomenon. We carried out an antecedent judgment task with L1 German and L1 Russian-speaking, proficient L2 learners of German to examine Condition C…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, German, Semantics
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Mateu, Victoria; Hyams, Nina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Experimental studies show that children have greater difficulty with "wh"-extraction from object position than subject position, arguably an intervention effect (e.g., Relativized Minimality). In this study we provide additional evidence of a S/O asymmetry in A'-dependencies from a novel source--sluicing. The results of our first…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Intervention, English, Preschool Children
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Yang, Meiling; Wang, Yunqi – Language Learning and Development, 2023
How does linguistic structure affect children's developing cardinal number knowledge? The bootstrapping theory proposes that children might use syntactic information provided by known words such as quantifiers to bootstrap the meanings of unfamiliar words such as number words. Prior studies of numeral and quantifier development have indicated that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Numeracy, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This article presents a self-paced reading study comparing the online processing of interclausal discourse relations in native speakers of English and German. The study aims to contribute to two overarching questions: First, it puts to the test the so-called causality-by-default hypothesis, which states that causality is a default assumption,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, German, Reading Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Azkarai, Agurtzane; Oliver, Rhonda; Gil-Berrio, Yohana – Language Learning, 2022
The interactionist hypothesis holds that conversational interaction facilitates second language (L2) learning by providing learners opportunities to receive meaningful input, modify their output, and attend to language form. Although research has often explored the efficacy of different types of L2 instruction (deductive or inductive), few studies…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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López Otero, Julio César; Cuza, Alejandro; Jiao, Jian – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study examines the production and intuition of Spanish clitics in clitic left dislocation (CLLD) structures among 26 Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) born and raised in Brazil. We tested clitic production and intuition in contexts in which Spanish clitics vary as a function of the semantic features of the object that they refer to.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intuition, Semantics
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Wahid, Ridwan – Journal of English as an International Language, 2020
Usage of definite and indefinite articles is known to vary across different varieties of English, especially in the outer circle. As a semantic/pragmatic category, definiteness is notoriously slippery to define -- is it uniqueness, familiarity, inclusiveness or identifiability? Literature has shown that the lack of an agreed definition can…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages)
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Zhang, Jun; Wu, Yan – Second Language Research, 2023
Scalar implicatures involve inferring the use of a less informative term (e.g. some) to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g. not all). A growing body of recent research on the derivation of scalar implicatures by adult second language (L2) learners shows that while they are successful in acquiring the knowledge of scalar…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Inferences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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
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