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Bergen, Doris; Hutchinson, Kathleen; Nolan, Joan T.; Weber, Deborah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Infant-parent play with toys is an early form of social communication, and the toy features (i.e., affordances), as well as the child's language competence, contribute to the developmental level of the play and the types of play actions that occur. This research, conducted in cooperation with a toy manufacturer, investigated how the affordances of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Play, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
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Swerts, Marc; van Wijk, Carel – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Tennis scores represent a natural language domain that offers the unique opportunity to study the effects of discourse constraints on prosody with strict control over syntactic and lexical variation. This study analyzed a set of tennis scores, such as "30-15," from live recordings of several Wimbledon and Davis Cup matches. The objective was to…
Descriptors: Racquet Sports, Natural Language Processing, Scores, Language Usage
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Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
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Warchal, Krystyna – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This paper focuses on the interpersonal potential of the conditional clause as a rhetorical device for establishing a dialogue between the author and the reader of an academic text in search for shared understanding and consensus. It presents a corpus-based analysis of functions conditional clauses play in linguistics research articles in an…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship, Rhetoric
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Schmid, Monika S.; Fagersten, Kristy Beers – Language Learning, 2010
Based on an analysis of the speech of long-term emigres of German and Dutch origin, the present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may be the result of the creation of an interlanguage system, on the one hand, or of language-internal attrition patterns on the other. We compare speech samples elicited…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Skill Attrition, Language Patterns, Investigations
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Ferraris, Stefania – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
This chapter presents the results of a study on interlanguage variation. The production of four L2 learners of Italian, tested four times at yearly intervals while engaged in four oral tasks, is compared to that of two native speakers, and analysed with quantitative CAF measures. Thus, time, task type, nativeness, as well as group vs. individual…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies
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Muench, Kristin L.; Creel, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learners frequently experience phonologically inconsistent input, such as exposure to multiple accents. Yet, little is known about the consequences of phonological inconsistency for language learning. The current study examines vocabulary acquisition with different degrees of phonological inconsistency, ranging from no inconsistency (e.g., both…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Learning Problems, Linguistic Input
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Gayraud, Frederique; Lee, Hye-Ran; Barkat-Defradas, Melissa – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Psycholinguistic studies dealing with Alzheimer's disease (AD) commonly consider verbal aspects of language. In this article, we investigated both verbal and non-verbal aspects of speech production in AD. We used pauses and hesitations as markers of planning difficulties and hypothesized that AD patients show different patterns in the process of…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Older Adults, Alzheimers Disease, Patients
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Ivy, Lennette J.; Masterson, Julie J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to compare the rates of using African American English (AAE) grammatical features in spoken and written language at different points in literacy development. Based on Kroll's model (1981), a high degree of similarity in use between the modalities was expected at Grade 3, and lower similarity was…
Descriptors: African American Students, Writing (Composition), Black Dialects, Grammar
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Temperley, David – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The regularity of stress patterns in a language depends on "distributional stress regularity", which arises from the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and "durational stress regularity", which arises from the timing of syllables. Here we focus on distributional regularity, which depends on three factors. "Lexical stress patterning"…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Language Patterns
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Woollams, Anna M.; Joanisse, Marc; Patterson, Karalyn – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The standard task used to study inflectional processing of verbs involves presentation of the stem form from which the participant is asked to generate the past tense. This task reveals a processing disadvantage for irregular relative to regular English verbs, more pronounced for lower-frequency items. Dual- and single-mechanism theories of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
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Birch, Phil David John; Batten, John; Manley, Andrew John; Smith, Matthew Jeffery – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the informational cues that students perceive to be influential when developing initial impressions and expectancies of a lecturer. Undergraduate university students (n = 452) were required to rate the extent to which 30 informational cues (e.g. gender, qualifications) influence their initial perceptions of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
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Enright, Kerry Anne; Torres-Torretti, Daniela; Carreon, Orlando – Language and Education, 2012
In this article, we examine the relationship between classroom talk, teacher-student roles and paradigms for literacy and learning in two ninth-grade English Language Arts classes. Our goal was to understand how these roles and practices socialized students into norms for academic language and literacy as they read and wrote poetry in preparation…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 9, Classroom Communication, Teacher Role
An, Young-ran – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation addresses the extent to which linguistic behavior can be described in terms of the projection of patterns from existing lexical items, through an investigation of Korean reduplication. Korean has a productive pattern of reduplication in which a consonant is inserted in a vowel-initial base, illustrated by forms such as "alok"--"t…
Descriptors: Syllables, Vowels, Native Speakers, Computational Linguistics
Luna, Rosa Munoz – Online Submission, 2010
The following article aims to revisit Selinker's theory of Interlanguage by analysing a group of undergraduates' written scripts in L2. The initial outcomes of the study establish a linguistic parallelism between students' Interlingua and English as a lingua franca in the academic world. In the light of this comparison, certain theoretical…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, English for Academic Purposes, Academic Discourse, Language Patterns
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