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Mayr, Clemens – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present thesis investigates the role of semantic alternatives and logical strength in a number of empirical domains. Firstly, the thesis deals with the semantic contribution of focus on (bound) pronouns (chapters 2-3). The main results are as follows: First, focus on bound pronouns is interpreted by an operator (Rooth 1992b) in the scope of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Semantics, Generalization, Semiotics
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Cain, Kate; Towse, Andrea S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The aim was to identify the source of idiom understanding difficulties in children with specific reading comprehension failure. Method: Two groups (ns = 15) of 9- to 10-year-olds participated. One group had age-appropriate word reading and reading comprehension; the other group had age-appropriate word reading but poor reading…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Figurative Language
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Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Three experiments tested the main claims of the idiom decomposition hypothesis: People have clear intuitions on the semantic compositionality of idiomatic expressions, which determines the syntactic behavior of these expressions and how they are recognized. Experiment 1 showed that intuitions are clear only for a very restricted number of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Semiotics, Language Processing
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Kaiser, Elsi; Runner, Jeffrey T.; Sussman, Rachel S.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognition, 2009
We present four experiments on the interpretation of pronouns and reflexives in picture noun phrases with and without possessors (e.g. "Andrew's picture of him/himself, the picture of him/himself"). The experiments (two off-line studies and two visual-world eye-tracking experiments) investigate how syntactic and semantic factors guide the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
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Meteyard, Lotte; Patterson, Karalyn – Brain and Language, 2009
In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers. Relative to controls, patients were significantly…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
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Pu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this study, analyses of oral and written Mandarin Chinese narratives demonstrate that SS structures (subject head noun phrase [NP] modified by a subject RC) are produced more…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese
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D'Angelo, Frank J. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
A method for analyzing connected discourse beyond paragraph length is demonstrated. (JH)
Descriptors: Essays, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Rhetorical Criticism
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Traugott, Elizabeth Cross – Language Sciences, 1980
Several hypotheses are developed concerning the semantic-pragmatic shifts that take place in the development of grammatical markers such as prepositions, auxiliary verbs and sentence connectives. Over time, grammatical markers shift from being primarily referential to more pragmatic meanings, from propositional to textual to attitudinal. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Function Words, Grammar, Language Patterns
Pearson, Charls; Slamecka, Vladimir – 1977
A new theory of sign structure is proposed which explains the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic classification of signs. The theory comprises in part a language capable of relating studies of information processes across a range of disciplines, including communication science psychology, computer science, and linguistics. The power and utility of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computer Programs, Databases, Information Science
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Lemke, J. L. – Linguistics and Education, 1992
Describes and categorizes patterns we construct between texts of different kinds (patterns of intertextuality). Whether the principles of intertextuality can be applied to other sorts of semiotic "texts" such as computer graphics and hypermedia is raised as a crucial question for the future of educational research. (Contains 48…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Blackwell, Aleka Akoyunoglou – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Properties of the input, such as raw frequency and syntactic diversity, have been shown to play a role, to different extents, in the acquisition of nouns and verbs. This study investigated the relationship between three properties of the input (input frequency, syntactic diversity, and variety in noun-type co-occurrence) and age of acquisition of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Play, Semantics, Nouns
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Nattiez, Jean Jacques – Cahier de Linguistique, 1975
After discussing the nature and application of the word "semiology" (or semiotics) and briefly reviewing research in semiotics, this article examines the issue of whether or not semiotics can be considered an independent discipline. Available from Les Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, C.P. 250, Succursale N, Montreal, Canada H2X 3M4. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Art, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Patterns, Language Research
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Hofmann, Thomas R. – Language Sciences, 1974
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
Ventola, Eija, Ed. – 1991
Articles included in this compilation represent functional approaches to literary analysis. Most of these papers were presented at the Sixteenth International Systemics Congress held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1989. The aim of the congress was to establish dialogue between various functional approaches to the theoretical study of language, to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Literary Genres
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Luskin, Bernard J. – T.H.E. Journal, 1998
Explores the underlying psychology upon which media programs and services are developed and describes the psychology of producing media. Topics include editing, including non-linear editing; emotions; language, or semantics; symbols, or semiotics; production techniques, including narration and user control; motion pictures and television;…
Descriptors: Editing, Futures (of Society), Language Patterns, Leadership
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