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Green, David W.; Crinion, Jenny; Price, Cathy J. – Language Learning, 2006
Understanding the neural representation and control of language in normal bilingual speakers provides insights into the factors that constrain the acquisition of another language, insights into the nature of language expertise, and an understanding of the brain as an adaptive system. We illustrate both functional and structural brain changes…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Brain
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McKee, Cecile; Rispoli, Matt; McDaniel, Dana; Garrett, Merrill – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
We join other responders in thanking Clahsen and Felser (CF) for pulling together these observations about the development of language processing. We are especially impressed by the generality and inclusiveness of CF's treatment of development in L1 and L2. Because most of their specifics concerned comprehension processes, our contribution will…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Sentences, Language Acquisition
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Sabourin, Laura – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
In their Keynote Article, Clahsen and Felser (CF) provide a detailed summary and comparison of grammatical processing in adult first language (L1) speakers, child L1 speakers, and second language (L2) speakers. CF conclude that child and adult L1 processing makes use of a continuous parsing mechanism, and that any differences found in processing…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Native Language, Second Languages, Children
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Sorace, Antonella – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
The proposal by Clahsen and Felser (CF) has the potential of marking a turning point in second language (L2) acquisition research. Contrary to much L2 research to date, it suggests that some of the differences between native and (advanced) nonnative speakers may be at the level of grammatical processing, rather than grammatical representations.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Processing, Children
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Traxler, Matthew J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
In this article, the authors lay out an impressive body of evidence that supports two main claims. First, they favor the continuity hypothesis, according to which children's parsing mechanisms are essentially the same as adults'. Parsing strategies change little over time, and those changes that occur are attributed to differences in lexical…
Descriptors: Children, Language Processing, Short Term Memory, Differences
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Service, Elisabet – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
The first report of a connection between vocabulary learning and phonological short-term memory was published in 1988 (Baddeley, Papagno, & Vallar, 1988). At that time, both Susan Gathercole and I were involved in longitudinal studies, investigating the relation between nonword repetition and language learning. We both found a connection. Now,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Short Term Memory, Repetition
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Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana; Pachana, Nancy; Cummings, Jeffrey L.; Sidtis, John J. – Brain and Language, 2006
Progress in understanding brain/behavior relationships in adult-acquired dysprosody has led to models of cortical hemispheric representation of prosodic processing based on functional (linguistic vs affective) or physical (timing vs pitch) parameters. These explanatory perspectives have not been reconciled, and also a number of neurobehavior…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Processing, Adults, Patients
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Kambanaros, Maria; van Steenbrugge, Willem – Brain and Language, 2006
Noun and verb comprehension and production was investigated in two groups of late bilingual, Greek-English speakers: individuals with anomic aphasia and a control group of non-brain injured individuals matched for age and gender. There were no significant differences in verb or noun comprehension between the two groups in either language. However,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Processing, Greek
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Altmann, Lori J. P.; Saleem, Ahmad; Kendall, Diane; Heilman, Kenneth M.; Rothi, Leslie J. Gonzalez – Brain and Language, 2006
This study tested the hypotheses that people had a bias for drawing agents on the left of a picture when given a verb stimulus targeting an active or passive event (e.g., "kicked" or "is kicked") and that orthographic directionality would influence the way events were illustrated. Monolingual English speakers, who read and write left-to-right, and…
Descriptors: English, Semitic Languages, Hypothesis Testing, Verbs
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Fink, Martina; Churan, Jan; Wittmann, Marc – Brain and Language, 2006
Standard diagnostic procedures for assessing temporal-processing abilities of adult patients with aphasia have so far not been developed. In our study, temporal-order measurements were conducted using two different experimental procedures to identify a suitable measure for clinical studies. Additionally, phoneme-discrimination abilities were…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Phonemes, Language Processing, Patients
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Cutica, Ilaria; Bucciarelli, Monica; Bara, Bruno G. – Brain and Language, 2006
The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right- and left-hemisphere-damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we study extralinguistic communication, that is communication performed only through gestures. The Cognitive Pragmatics Theory provides the theoretical framework:…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Brain
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Thiel, Alexander; Habedank, Birgit; Herholz, Karl; Kessler, Josef; Winhuisen, Lutz; Haupt, Walter F.; Heiss, Wolf-Dieter – Brain and Language, 2006
In normal right-handed subjects language production usually is a function of the left brain hemisphere. Patients with aphasia following brain damage to the left hemisphere have a considerable potential to compensate for the loss of this function. Sometimes, but not always, areas of the right hemisphere which are homologous to language areas of the…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Patients
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Kaschak, Michael P.; Loney, Renrick A.; Borreggine, Kristin L. – Cognition, 2006
In two experiments, we explore how recent experience with particular syntactic constructions affects the strength of the structural priming observed for those constructions. The results suggest that (1) the strength of structural priming observed for double object and prepositional object constructions is affected by the relative frequency with…
Descriptors: Experiments, Effect Size, Experiments, Language Processing
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Parault, Susan J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Sound symbolism is the notion that the relation between word sounds and word meaning is not arbitrary for all words, but rather there is a subset of words in the world's languages for which sounds and their symbols have some degree of correspondence. This research investigates sound symbolism as a possible means of gaining semantic knowledge of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Phonology, Written Language, Semantics
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Kandel, Sonia; Alvarez, Carlos J.; Vallee, Nathalie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
This research focused on the syllable as a processing unit in handwriting. Participants wrote, in uppercase letters, words that had been visually presented. The interletter intervals provide information on the timing of motor production. In Experiment 1, French participants wrote words that shared the initial letters but had different syllable…
Descriptors: Intervals, Handwriting, French, Syllables
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