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Canut, Emmanuelle; Jourdain, Morgane; Bocéréan, Christine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The goal of this study is to investigate the acquisition of causal relations with parce que "because" and temporal relations with quand "when" by children between age 3 and 5. We aim at identifying whether different discourse type, conversation and narration, allow children to use quand and parce que with different semantic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, French, Child Language, Syntax
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Pauline Quemar; Julie A. Wolter; Xi Chen; S. Hélène Deacon – Journal of Child Language, 2023
We examined whether and how the degree of meaning overlap between morphologically related words influences sentence plausibility judgment in children. In two separate studies with kindergarten and second-graders, English-speaking and French-speaking children judged the plausibility of sentences that included two paired target words. Some of these…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Grade 2, Language Acquisition
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Vincent Bourassa Bedard; Natacha Trudeau; Andrea A. N. MacLeod – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Current understanding of word-finding (WF) difficulties in children and their underlying language processing deficit is poor. Authors have proposed that different underlying deficits may result in different profiles. The current study aimed to better understand WF difficulties by identifying difficult tasks for children with WF difficulties and by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Word Recognition, Word Lists, Difficulty Level
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Benjamin Kowialiewski; Steve Majerus; Klaus Oberauer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Recall performance in working memory (WM) is strongly affected by the similarity between items. When asked to encode and recall list of items in their serial order, people confuse more often the position of similar compared to dissimilar items. Models of WM explain this deleterious effect of similarity through a problem of discriminability between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Serial Ordering, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Jiaxin Li; Er-Hu Zhang; Haihui Zhang; Xinyi He; Defeng Li; Hong-Wen Cao – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study used event-related potential (ERP) and retrieval practice effect paradigm to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the retrieval practice effect in a third language (L3) vocabulary learning. Thirty-five Chinese (First Language, L1)-English (Second Language, L2) bilinguals without prior knowledge of French (L3) studied 120…
Descriptors: Brain, Information Retrieval, Recall (Psychology), Memory
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Henry Brice; Benjamin Zinszer; Danielle Kablan; Fabrice Tanoh; Konan N. N. Nana; Kaja K. Jasinska – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: Statistical learning (SL) approaches to reading maintain that proficient reading requires assimilation of the rich statistical regularities in the writing system. Reading skills in developing first- and second-language readers in English have been shown to be predicted by individual differences in sensitivity to regularities in mappings…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Semantics, Writing (Composition)
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Röer, Jan Philipp; Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Sonier, René-Pierre; Marsh, John E.; Moore, Stuart B.; Kershaw, Matthew B. A.; Ljung, Robert; Arnström, Sebastian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Visual-verbal serial recall is disrupted when task-irrelevant background speech has to be ignored. Contrary to previous suggestion, it has recently been shown that the magnitude of disruption may be accentuated by the semantic properties of the irrelevant speech. Sentences ending with unexpected words that did not match the preceding semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Recall (Psychology), Serial Ordering, English
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Lisa Klasen; Sonja Ugen; Carole Dording; Michel Fayol; Constanze Weth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Inaudible syntactic markers are especially difficult to spell. This paper examines how 455 fourth graders spell silent French plural markers in a dictation with real and pseudowords after one year of formal French instruction (L2). The Generalized Linear Mixed Model analysis shows first that noun plural spelling (real and pseudo) is a strong…
Descriptors: Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
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Mirabile, Paul Vincent – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2023
To teach English as a second foreign language at university levels provides the educator or professor an excellent occasion to compare the first and second languages by a series of analogical activities that not only highlight the similar forms and structures of them, but more important still, oblige students to comprehend these forms and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Babineau, Mireille; Havron, Naomi; Dautriche, Isabelle; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. This is "syntactic bootstrapping." A learner that uses syntactic bootstrapping to foster lexical acquisition must first have identified the semantic information that a syntactic context provides. Based on the "semantic seed…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Ardanouy, Estelle; Delage, Hélène; Zesiger, Pascal – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a vocabulary deficit. One of the most effective interventions for increasing children's lexicon size is the semantic and phonological approach, an approach that has been used mainly with adolescents. The goals of our study are (1) to test whether the semantic-phonological approach…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Vocabulary Development, Developmental Delays
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De Stefani, Elwys – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examines head nods produced as embodied and silent answers to polar questions before a transition relevance place has been reached. It discusses the notion of "response" and the ways in which the literature conceptualizes head nods. The analysis of video recordings of ordinary and institutional multiparty interactions shows…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, French, Italian, Video Technology
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Zitouni, Mimouna; Zemni, Bahia; Abdul-Ghafour, Abdul-Qader – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The current study investigated the nuances among Qur'anic near-synonyms and the reflection of such semantic differences in English and French translations. Initially, it aimed to highlight the contextual meanings of the selected sets of Qur'anic near-synonyms in the light of the exegeses of the Holy Qur'an. Moreover, it explicated the nuances…
Descriptors: Islam, Semantics, Language Usage, French
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Helen Engemann – Journal of Child Language, 2024
Previous research on the L1 acquisition of motion event expression suggests that mapping multiple semantic components onto syntactic units is associated with greater difficulties in verb-framed than in satellite-framed languages, because the former require more complex structures (using subordination). This study investigated the impact of this…
Descriptors: French, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, English
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Labusch, Melanie; Massol, Stéphanie; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
An often overlooked but fundamental issue for any comprehensive model of visual-word recognition is the representation of diacritical vowels: Do diacritical and nondiacritical vowels share their abstract letter representations? Recent research suggests that the answer is "yes" in languages where diacritics indicate suprasegmental…
Descriptors: Vowels, Distinctive Features (Language), French, Pronunciation
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