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Jing Gao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I investigate the Mandarin "you"-existential sentence. My focus is on its syntax. I also discuss in less detail some semantic peculiarity of the "you"-existential. I begin my investigation of the syntax of "you"-existentials by first looking into what they are not. To this end, I present five…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Ayelet Sasson; Rachel Schiff; Barak Zluf – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners. We also examined the correlation between L2 noun phrase comprehension and L2 reading comprehension, as well as the contribution of L2 noun phrase comprehension to L2 reading comprehension. One hundred…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 11
Sanchez, Katherine; Spittle, Alicia J.; Boyce, Jessica O.; Leembruggen, Linda; Mantelos, Anastasia; Mills, Stephanie; Mitchell, Naomi; Neil, Emily; St John, Miya; Treloar, Jasmin; Morgan, Angela T. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Language difficulties are prevalent among children born preterm. Existing studies have largely used standardized language tests, providing limited scope for detailed descriptive examination of preterm language. This study aimed to examine differences in conversational language between children born < 30 weeks and at term as well as…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Premature Infants, Communication Problems, Morphemes
Kisselev, Olesya; Soyan, Rossina; Pastushenkov, Dmitrii; Merrill, Jason – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Linguistic complexity serves as an important measure of second language (L2) writing development. Complexity indices, however, rarely feature in the studies of learner languages other than English. Additionally, L2 writing studies have been criticized for the lack of consistency in defining proficiency. The current study addresses these gaps by…
Descriptors: Russian, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Myachykov, Andriy; Garrod, Simon; Scheepers, Christoph – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers' attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also…
Descriptors: Attention, Memory, Role, Syntax
Walker, Aaron Hyde – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is concerned with the specific relationship between copular sentences and existential sentences, and what about that relationship is responsible for the well-known restrictions on definiteness and predicates that are observed in the existential cases. Instead of starting with the well-known paradigms which illustrate restrictions…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phonology, Morphemes, Grammar
Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Hasson, Natalie; Dodd, Barbara; Botting, Nicola – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Sentence construction and syntactic organization are known to be poor in children with specific language impairments (SLI), but little is known about the way in which children with SLI approach language tasks, and static standardized tests contribute little to the differentiation of skills within the population of children with…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Language Processing
Haskell, Todd R.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
A number of studies have shown that structural factors play a much larger role than the linear order of words during the production of grammatical agreement. These findings have been used as evidence for a stage in the production process at which hierarchical relations between constituents have been established (a necessary precursor to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Grammar, Language Processing

Gass, Susan M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Investigates the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragamatics from the perspectives of functional constraints on sentence processing. Findings reveal that native speakers of Italian first become aware of the importance of the concept of word order in a second language before being able to determine the specifics of word order in that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Discourse Analysis, Holistic Approach, Interlanguage
Schaefer, Ronald P. – 1986
Semantic noun classes in Emai, an Edoid language of Nigeria, are examined with respect to a process of Reference Point Marking (RPM) in order to explore the relationship between discourse and lexical semantics. Across pre- and post-verbal positions subcategorized by verbs like "rere" ("to be far"), these classes are shown to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Developing Nations, Discourse Analysis, Grammar

Schumann, John H. – Language Learning, 1986
Analysis of basilang speech (in terms of word order, reference to time, and reference to space) of Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese speakers of English as a second language indicated that oriental subjects tended not to use prepositions and that Spanish-speaking subjects tended to use "in" to express most locative meanings. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Chinese, Correlation, Discourse Analysis
Roos, Michael E. – 1981
A study was conducted to determine whether a significant correlation existed between an essay's letter grade and five important factors of syntactic maturity (clause length, t-unit length, sentence length, clauses per t-unit, and t-units per sentence). A total of 45 essays--15 A, 15 B, and 15 C papers as graded by five junior college English…
Descriptors: Correlation, Essays, Evaluation Methods, Grading

Blackwell, Arshavir; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Presents the results of three experiments investigating the time course of grammaticality judgement. The high correlations among the experiments suggest that the incremental tasks assigned were tapping into the same decision-making process as is found online. The article discusses the findings' implications for the error types that do and do not…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Correlation