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Jeonghwa Cho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical features, and sentences. For a truly generalizable theory of psycholinguistics, the languages surveyed should not be constrained to English (Garnham, 1994; Norcliffe…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean
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Bilas, Andriy – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the problems of colloquial interrogative sentences having the function features in the source and target fiction texts. The importance of the research of interrogative sentences is defined by frequent use of questioning in the process of communication and a close connection of the problem of questioning with other…
Descriptors: French, Ukrainian, Translation, Figurative Language
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Hau, Jutta A.; Holt, Colleen M.; Finch, Sue; Dowell, Richard C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The language processing of Mandarin-accented English (MAE) by older hearing-impaired (OHI), older normally hearing (NH), and younger NH listeners was explored. We examined whether OHI adults have more difficulty than NH listeners in recognizing and adapting to MAE speech productions after receiving brief training with the accent. Method:…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Pronunciation, Comparative Analysis
Melebari, Alaa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The topic of this dissertation concerns the ways that (IN)ANIMACY distinctions interact with various sub-systems of the human language faculty, in particular, morpho-syntax. In Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), morpho-syntax and ANIMACY can be pit against each other directly on the same set of target words, allowing a close inspection of the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Syntax
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Stringer, Louise; Iverson, Paul – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The intelligibility of an accent strongly depends on the specific talker-listener pairing. To explore the causes of this phenomenon, we investigated the relationship between acoustic-phonetic similarity and accent intelligibility across native (1st language) and nonnative (2nd language) talker-listener pairings. We also used online…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Native Language, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
Loudermilk, Brandon Conner – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In our increasingly multicultural and multilingual world, an understanding of how we perceive language, dialects, and linguistic variation and the relationship these features have to language attitude, plays an increasingly important role in shaping social behavior and policy. This study, situated at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Dialects
Fine, Alex Brabham – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A fundamental challenge for human cognition is perceiving and acting in a world in which the statistics that characterize available sensory data are non-stationary. This thesis focuses on this problem specifically in the domain of sentence comprehension, where linguistic variability poses computational challenges to the processes underlying…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Research, Syntax, Language Variation
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Jegerski, Jill – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This self-paced reading study first tested the prediction that the garden path effect previously observed during the processing of subject-object ambiguities in native English would not obtain in a null subject language like Spanish. The investigation then further explored whether the effect would be evident among near-native readers of Spanish…
Descriptors: Prediction, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, English
Hwang, So-One K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores the hypothesis that language processing proceeds in "windows" that correspond to representational units, where sensory signals are integrated according to time-scales that correspond to the rate of the input. To investigate universal mechanisms, a comparison of signed and spoken languages is necessary. Underlying the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Testing, Morphemes
Shields, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This thesis presents arguments for a representational analysis of certain locality constraints on movement. I look at two types of locality effects: Negative Intervention effects in English (Beck 1996, 2006, Pesetsky 2000), and Relativized Minimality effects with adverb scrambling in Russian, Japanese, and Korean (Rizzi 1990, 2001, Li, Lin &…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intervention, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax