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Tsuchida, Takehiro – Online Submission, 2011
Examining grammatically idiosyncratic English expressions often helps reveal not only to ESL (English as a second language) teachers and learners but also to experts on English how intricately language is composed. This paper aims to expound one such idiomatic expression of the "try and V" construction by exploring the phenomenon from diverse…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, English, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
Tanaka, Mikihiro N.; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F.; Pickering, Martin J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Two experiments using a sentence recall task tested the effect of animacy on syntactic processing in Japanese sentence production. Experiment 1 and 2 showed that when Japanese native speakers recalled transitive sentences, they were more likely to assign animate entities earlier positions in the sentence than inanimate entities. In addition,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Word Order, Native Speakers
Le Sourn-Bissaoui, Sandrine; Caillies, Stephanie; Gierski, Fabien; Motte, Jacques – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of central coherence skills and theory of mind competences in ambiguity detection in adolescents with Asperger syndrome (AS). We sought to pinpoint the level at which AS individuals experience difficulty detecting semantic ambiguity and identify the factors that account for their problems. We…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Asperger Syndrome, Adolescents
Muysken, Pieter – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This paper sketches a comprehensive framework for modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena, with speakers' bilingual strategies in specific scenarios of language contact as its point of departure. Bilingual strategies are conditioned by social factors, processing constraints of speakers' bilingual competence, and perceived…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Social Influences, Native Language, Language Processing
Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This paper examines the history of four Chinese vernaculars which have developed written forms, and argues that five of the patterns Hanan identifies in the early development of Bai Hua can also be found in the early development of written Wu, Cantonese, and Minnan. In each of the cases studied, there is a clear pattern of early use of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Social Status, Self Concept
Mulac, Anthony; Giles, Howard; Bradac, James J.; Palomares, Nicholas A. – Language Sciences, 2013
The gender-linked language effect (GLLE) is a phenomenon in which transcripts of female communicators are rated higher on Socio-Intellectual Status and Aesthetic Quality and male communicators are rated higher on Dynamism. This study proposed and tested a new general process model explanation for the GLLE, a central mediating element of which…
Descriptors: Prediction, Photography, Discriminant Analysis, Language Patterns
Choi, Soonja; Hattrup, Kate – Cognitive Science, 2012
This study investigated the relative contribution of perception/cognition and language-specific semantics in nonverbal categorization of spatial relations. English and Korean speakers completed a video-based similarity judgment task involving containment, support, tight fit, and loose fit. Both perception/cognition and language served as resources…
Descriptors: Semantics, Video Technology, Language Patterns, Classification
McDonough, Kim; De Vleeschauwer, Jindarat – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Recently researchers have suggested that syntactic priming may facilitate the production of "wh"-questions with obligatory auxiliary verbs, particularly when learners are prompted to produce those questions with a wide variety of lexical items (McDonough & Kim, 2009; McDonough & Mackey, 2008). However, learners' ability to benefit from syntactic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Priming, Verbs, Cues
Muysken, Pieter – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
"Ouh que c'est laid!" "Oh this is ugly!" is one of the comments among the 11,800 hits on Google for the sequence "la fille que je sors avec" [the girl I go out with]. Often the comments include the idea that the whole expression has been taken from English as a direct calque. The authors of the present keynote…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), French
Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Weber-Fox, Christine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
Event structure describes the relationships between general semantics ("Aktionsart") of the verb and its syntactic properties, separating verbs into two classes: telic verbs, which denote change of state events with an inherent end-point or boundary ("catch, rescue"), and atelic, which refer to homogenous activities ("tease, host"). As telic verbs…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
Sulpizio, Simone; McQueen, James M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
In two eye-tracking experiments in Italian, we investigated how acoustic information and stored knowledge about lexical stress are used during the recognition of tri-syllabic spoken words. Experiment 1 showed that Italians use acoustic cues to a word's stress pattern rapidly in word recognition, but only for words with antepenultimate stress.…
Descriptors: Cues, Suprasegmentals, Word Recognition, Acoustics
Höhle, Barbara; Pauen, Sabina; Hesse, Volker; Weissenborn, Jürgen – Language Learning, 2014
In this article we report on early rhythmic discrimination performance of children who participated in a longitudinal study following children from birth to their 6th year of life. Thirty-four children including 8 children with a family risk for developmental language impairment were tested on the discrimination of trochaic and iambic disyllabic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Memory, Language Skills, German
Amer, Mahmoud – CALICO Journal, 2014
This study explored how four groups of language learners used a mobile software application developed by the researcher for learning idiomatic expressions and collocations. A total of 45 participants in the study used the application for a period of one week. Data for this study was collected from the application, a questionnaire, and follow-up…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Learning Processes
Kim, Ji Eun – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Our communication process is composed of the flow of information between interlocutors. It is well known that the information is not always delivered in explicit ways or merely by literal meanings. In addition to the literal meanings of the lexical items and their combination into utterances, both speakers and listeners calculate pragmatic factors…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Linguistics, Pragmatics
Moxey, Linda M.; Filik, Ruth – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Following a positively quantified statement such as, "A "few" of the children sang the chorus," a plural pronoun is likely to refer to the set of children who sang (the reference set). Negative natural language quantifiers (NLQs) such as "few" or "not many," on the other hand, are more likely to be followed…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Expectation, Inferences, Reader Response