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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Neurolinguistics"”.
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The structure of linguistic behaviour : using evidence from aphasiology to corroborate and develop Merleau-Ponty's theory of language and intersubjectivity
… to me while reading Luria's Basic Problems of Neurolinguistics. Many of Luria's patients manifest forms of a disintegration of speech and of the understanding of speech, which resemble the disintegration of movement in space and perception of space of Goldstein's patient, Schneider, the case …
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Percieved linguistic and communicative competence of bi/multilingual autistic children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… Social-Pragmatic Theory) and some relevant neurolinguistics framework to explicate relevant concepts and the research problems interrogated by the study. An embedded mixed method design was adopted by this study, and doing so entailed research design from both quantitative and qualitative …
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Die kortikale Verarbeitung semantischer Domänen : eine ERP-Studie
… are still sketchy with regard to psycho- and neurolinguistics. It is still unknown if semantic categories and lexical hierarchies are just a theoretical construct or if they have a cognitive reality. Neurolinguistic approaches vary in their assumptions as to whether mental lexicon structures …
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Shifting Semantic Activation via Context: A Study of Aging and Semantic Network Dynamics in Word Production
<p>There is ongoing debate about the locus of word retrieval deficits in aging, and how aging modifies the relationship between contextual processing and word production. Thematic relations among words (e.g., “sun” and “shell” are exemplars of the thematic category “beach”) are of particular …
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Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature
The present study examines the representation and composition of meaning in scalar implicatures. Scalar implicature is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., some) is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean not all). The experiments reported …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
<p>Taboo Lexeme Conditioning refers to the neurological, psychological, and sociological conditioning required during lexical acquisition for a native speaker to treat or experience certain lexemes as highly taboo. Taboo words differentiate both neurologically from non-emotional or non-taboo …
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Examining native and non-native establishment of dependencies in the online processing of coordinate phrase agreement in Spanish: An event-related potentials study
The present study investigates the processing of gender agreement with coordinate noun phrases in native speakers of Spanish and English-speaking second language (L2) learners of Spanish. In Spanish, nouns are assigned a grammatical gender (masculine/feminine), and adjectives must agree with the …
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
<p>Traditionally, heritage speakers are recognized as a heterogeneous group whose skills in their heritage language are unlike those of monolinguals or L2 learners of that language. Indeed, much evidence confirms the cognitive and linguistic uniqueness of this population. However, highly proficient …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
<p>Prosody has strong ties with syntax, since prosody can be used to resolve some syntactic ambiguities. Syntactic ambiguities have been shown to negatively impact automatic syntactic parsing, hence there is reason to believe that prosodic information can help improve parsing. This dissertation …
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
<p>Writing systems vary in how they relate graphemes to phonology and meaning. Consequently, each writing system makes unique demands on native speakers, resulting in different cognitive processes. This research examines the visual and phonological processes used by native Spanish and Chinese …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
<p>Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., <em>She had planned to cram the paperwork in the drawer into her briefcase</em>) have been reported to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary …
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Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment
Entrainment refers to the tendency of human speakers to adapt to their interlocutors to become more similar to them. This affects various dimensions and occurs in many contexts, allowing for rich applications in human-computer interaction. However, it is not exhibited by every speaker in every …
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Correlations Between Vowel Lengths and Emotion in Narratives
<p>This paper looks at the relationship between emotion and vowel length in spontaneous speech, specifically during narratives. It is hypothesized that during emotionally-laden speech, vowel length will be longer in duration than when in non-emotional speech. Data is drawn from the Univerisity of …
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Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs
<p>The language development and usage of autistic individuals has become a controversial topic in many of the disciplines and professions providing support to these individuals. As a result, two theories of language processing have been proposed. Analytical language processing suggests that …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
<p>Recent work in heritage language grammars has shown variability in L1 competence, despite high proficiency in both languages. While sources of variation have been debated, little attention has been given to the role of language dominance. This thesis uses a self-paced listening task to …
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Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language
<p>The thesis presents the first comparative investigation of reading fluency and factors that affect it by examining eye movements in reading by Heritage Speakers (HSs) and L2 learners of Russian. The eye movements of bilingual participants are compared to two control groups, monolingual adults …
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