This paper reports on a study on the relationship between cognitive task complexity and linguistic performance in L2 writing. In the study, two models proposed to explain the influence of cognitive task complexity on linguistic performance in L2 are tested and compared: Skehan and Foster's Limited Attentional Capacity Model (Skehan, 1998; Skehan…

A hypothesis for the aphasic syndrome of aggramatism--the omission of function words and inflectional morphemes--is presented. The author tests and illustrates the efficacy of closely observing substantive universals of grammatical structure in proposing accounts of linguistic defects. (Author/MV)

Linguistic and dichotic listening performances were studied of three groups of nine children (five to nine years old): (1) language-disordered children whose articulatory errors were primarily omissions; (2) language-disordered chidren whose articulatory errors were primarily substitutions; and (3) communicatively normal children. The results of…

The results of this study indicate that the voiceless fricatives, /S/ and /Sh/, are reduced in intensity when spoken in a whispered vowel environment. In addition females may produce relatively weaker fricative intensity and intra-oral pressure. (Author)

Results of a study designed to determine whether the activation of one of the bilingual's language systems makes the other system inoperative. (Author/FWB)

Examined processing of noun-noun compounds in which the internal noun is pluralized (such as "new books shelf"), contrary to normal constraints prohibiting such constructions. Tested 36 3- to 5-year olds on their interpretations of compounds fronted by an adjective. Results suggest that children's word formation processes allow complex…

Reports an analysis of videotape and interview data from four Year 8 mathematics lessons from the perspective of student cognitive engagement. Reports that cognitive engagement can be consistently recognized by specific linguistic and behavioral indicators. (Author/MM)

In a study on L2 proficiency in writing, conducted among 84 Dutch university students of Italian and 75 students of French, manipulation of task complexity led in the complex task to a significant decrease of errors, while at the same time a trend for a lexically more varied text was observed (Kuiken and Vedder 2005, 2007, in press). Based on this…

We report results from 2 language-based processing tasks designed to investigate the performance of linguistically diverse learners. The tasks were the Competing Language Processing Task (CLPT) and Non-Word Repetition (NWR). Participants were 100 school-age children in 1 of 3 different experimental groups: monolingual English-speaking children…

Rosch replied to the previous article in this edition of the Journal of Experimental Psychology and its evaluation of her research on the Cognitive Representations of Semantic Categories. (RK)

In the first section of this paper, the author analyzes concepts and theoretical issues found to be significant for the topics of investigation but neither sufficiently explicated nor fully incorporated into the studies to be described later. It is felt that much further work needs to be done in order to achieve such goals. In the second section,…

Discusses possible linguistic factors in children's misconceptions of words in the "Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, the "Lord's Prayer, and "America. (SW)