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Kemp, Charlotte – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2007
Multilinguals appear to become better at learning additional languages the more languages they know, and in particular, to be faster at learning grammar. This study investigates the use of grammar learning strategies in 144 participants who knew between 2 and 12 languages each, using a language background questionnaire, a set of 40 grammar…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Learning Strategies, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals)
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Huth, Thorsten – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2007
In the context of teaching culture, this article presents teaching materials that provide learners of German with opportunities to reflect about, analyze, and practice, how Germans commonly react to compliments. Based on findings from conversation analysis, the materials provide students with rich contextual information and a variety of…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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van Gelderen, Amos; Schoonen, Rob; Stoel, Reinoud; de Glopper, Kees; Hulstijn, Jan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between reading comprehension development of 389 adolescents in their dominant language (Language 1 [L1], Dutch) and a foreign language (Language 2 [L2], English). In each consecutive year from Grades 8 through 10, a number of measurements were taken. Students' reading comprehension, their linguistic…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Word Recognition, Sentences, Metacognition
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Floyd, Randy G.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Taub, Gordon E.; McGrew, Kevin S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study employed structural equation modeling to examine the effects of Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) abilities on reading decoding skills using five age-differentiated subsamples from the standardization sample of the Woodcock-Johnson III (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001). Using the Spearman Model including only g, strong direct effects of g on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Structural Equation Models, Short Term Memory, Listening Skills
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Kaushanskaya, Margarita; Marian, Viorica – Language Learning, 2007
Recognition and interference of a nontarget language (Russian) during production in a target language (English) were tested in Russian-English bilinguals using eye movements and picture naming. In Experiment 1, Russian words drew more eye movements and delayed English naming to a greater extent than control nonwords and English translation…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Human Body, Translation, Russian
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Shah, Amee P.; Baum, Shari R.; Dwivedi, Veena D. – Brain and Language, 2006
The present investigation focussed on the neural substrates underlying linguistic distinctions that are signalled by prosodic cues. A production experiment was conducted to examine the ability of left- (LHD) and right- (RHD) hemisphere-damaged patients and normal controls to use temporal and fundamental frequency cues to disambiguate sentences…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cues, Sentence Structure, Suprasegmentals
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Griffin, Zenzi M.; Spieler, Daniel H. – Brain and Language, 2006
Research on adult age differences in language production has traditionally focused on either the production of single words or the properties of language samples. Older adults are more prone to word retrieval failures than are younger adults (e.g., Burke, MacKay, Worthley, & Wade, 1991). Older adults also tend to produce fewer ideas per utterance…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Adults, Age Differences
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Champagne, Maud; Jean-Louis, Seendy; Joanette, Yves – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2006
Communication abilities are known to decline with age. In daily life, such abilities are frequently of the non-literal type, which require more cognitive resources to be processed. Since these resources tend to diminish with age, this study seeks to identify a possible effect of age on non-literal language abilities. Forty young and 40 older…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Communication Skills, Language Skills, Language Processing
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Brown-Schmidt, Sarah; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
In two experiments, naive participants took turns telling each other to click on a target picture while gaze was monitored. Critical trials included a "contrast" picture that differed from the target only in size. In both experiments, the timing of speakers' fixations on the contrast predicted whether the contrast was encoded in a phrase with a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Fluency, Computer Assisted Testing
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Paradis, Johanne; Crago, Martha; Genesee, Fred – Language Acquisition, 2006
In this study, we tested the predictions of 2 opposing perspectives on the nature of the deficit in specific language impairment (SLI): the domain-general, cognitive/perceptual processing view and the domain-specific, linguistic representational view. Data consisted of spontaneous speech samples from French-English bilingual children with SLI;…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages)
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Goral, Mira; Levy, Erika S.; Obler, Loraine K.; Cohen, Eyal – Brain and Language, 2006
Despite anecdotal data on lexical interference among the languages of multilingual speakers, little research evidence about the lexical connections among multilinguals' languages exists to date. In the present paper, two experiments with a multilingual speaker who had suffered aphasia are reported. The first experiment provides data about…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Aphasia, Multilingualism, Interlanguage
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Bedny, Marina; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Brain and Language, 2006
The present study characterizes the neural correlates of noun and verb imageability and addresses the question of whether components of the neural network supporting word recognition can be separately modified by variations in grammatical class and imageability. We examined the effect of imageability on BOLD signal during single-word comprehension…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Nouns, Verbs, Semantics
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Laganaro, Marina; Alario, F. -Xavier – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
The observation of a syllable frequency effect in naming latencies has been an argument in favor of a functional role of stored syllables in speech production. Accordingly, various theoretical models postulate that a repository of syllable representations is accessed during phonetic encoding. However, the direct empirical evidence for locating the…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonetics, Experiments, Articulation (Speech)
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Brooks, Patricia J.; Sekerina, Irina – Language Acquisition, 2006
Errors involving universal quantification are common in contexts depicting sets of individuals in partial, one-to-one correspondence. In this article, we explore whether quantifier-spreading errors are more common with distributive quantifiers each and every than with all. In Experiments 1 and 2, 96 children (5- to 9-year-olds) viewed pairs of…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Grammar, Error Patterns
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Runner, Jeffrey T.; Sussman, Rachel S.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognitive Science, 2006
Binding theory (e.g., Chomsky, 1981) has played a central role in both syntactic theory and models of language processing. Its constraints are designed to predict that the referential domains of pronouns and reflexives are nonoverlapping, that is, are complementary; these constraints are also thought to play a role in online reference resolution.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Nouns, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages)
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