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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
Nekrasova-Beker, Tatiana M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The recognition of second language (L2) development as a dynamic process has led to different claims about how language development unfolds, what represents a learner's linguistic system (i.e., interlanguage) at a certain point in time, and how that system changes over time (Verspoor, de Bot, & Lowie, 2011). Responding to de Bot and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes
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Kuperberg, Gina R.; Kreher, Donna A.; Sitnikova, Tatiana; Caplan, David N.; Holcomb, Phillip J. – Brain and Language, 2007
Recent event-related potential studies report a P600 effect to incongruous verbs preceded by semantically associated inanimate noun-phrase (NP) arguments, e.g., "eat" in "At breakfast the eggs would eat...". This P600 effect may reflect the processing cost incurred when semantic-thematic relationships between critical verbs and their preceding NP…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Sentences, Language Patterns
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Vukovic, Mile; Vuksanovic, Jasmina; Vukovic, Irena – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
In this study we investigated the recovery patterns of language and cognitive functions in patients with post-traumatic language processing deficits and in patients with aphasia following a stroke. The correlation of specific language functions and cognitive functions was analyzed in the acute phase and 6 months later. Significant recovery of the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Aphasia, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Patients
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Mor, Yishay; Winters, Niall – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008
Technologically enhanced learning environments raise complex challenges for their designers, developers and users. Design patterns and pattern languages have recently emerged as a potential framework for addressing some of these challenges. However, the uptake of design patterns has been slow outside of the computer science community. We argue…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Open Education, Workshops, Computer Science
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Klee, Carol A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalan, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns
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Maness, Jack M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2008
Thirty-one chat reference conversations were linguistically analyzed, compared to twenty-three instant messaging (IM) conversations held between students, and further correlated to students' satisfaction with the reference interaction. Conversations between librarians and students in chat reference are more formal than those solely involving…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, College Students
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Liu, Dilin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
Since the late 1980s, collocations have received increasing attention in applied linguistics, especially language teaching, as is evidenced by the many publications on the topic. These works fall roughly into two lines of research (a) those focusing on the identification and use of collocations (Benson, 1989; Hunston, 2002; Hunston & Francis,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Applied Linguistics, Reference Materials, Second Language Learning
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Scott, Rose M.; Fisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Two-year-olds assign appropriate interpretations to verbs presented in two English transitivity alternations, the causal and unspecified-object alternations (Naigles, 1996). Here we explored how they might do so. Causal and unspecified-object verbs are syntactically similar. They can be either transitive or intransitive, but differ in the semantic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Verbs
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Nakahama, Yuko – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This study investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI)--also known as first language (L1) transfer--on referent introduction and tracking in oral narratives in Japanese as a second language (L2) within the framework of functional approaches to language learning. Narrative discourse produced by two groups of learners of Japanese, one whose L1 is…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training
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Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The structure of /s/-clusters has been a rather controversial subject due to their structural oddities. Studies on the acquisition of these clusters have contributed to the discussion to validate certain theoretical claims, and sonority-related issues have always been in focus. Cross-linguistic acquisition data from children with phonological…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Phonological Awareness, Syllables
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van de Craats, Ineke; van Hout, Roeland – Second Language Research, 2010
This study examines an interlanguage in which Moroccan learners of Dutch use non-thematic verbs in combination with thematic verbs that can be inflected as well. These non-thematic verbs are real dummy auxiliaries because they are deprived of semantic content and primarily have a syntactic function. Whereas in earlier second language (L2) research…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Language Usage, Syntax, Language Research
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Yavas, Mehmet; Ben-David, Avivit; Gerrits, Ellen; Kristoffersen, Kristian E.; Simonsen, Hanne G. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
This paper examines the findings and implications of the cross-linguistic acquisition of #sC clusters in relation to sonority patterns. Data from individual studies on English, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew are compared for accuracy of production as well as the reductions with respect to potential differences across subtypes of #sC groups. In all…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonology, Norwegian, Language Acquisition
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Morris, Bradley J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
Why is it that young children use connectives correctly in conversation, yet frequently err when asked to use the same connectives in formal reasoning? One possibility is that connective acquisition is item-based in which usage rules are induced from natural language input. This possibility was evaluated by examining the correspondence between the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistic Input, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Findling, Robert L.; Connor, Daniel F.; Wigal, Timothy; Eagan, Corey; Onofrey, Meaghan Nelson – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2009
Objective: The aim was to evaluate in-office discussions of ADHD and psychiatric comorbidities. Method: Naturally occurring interactions among 11 psychiatrists, 32 patients and their parents were recorded, with a focus on "complicated" patients (i.e., having or suspected to have [greater than or equal to] 1 psychiatric comorbidities and/or…
Descriptors: Age, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorders, Patients
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