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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics"”.
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
… Indeed, much evidence confirms the cognitive and linguistic uniqueness of this population. However, highly proficient heritage speakers may pattern more similarly to another bilingual population than typically assumed: first-generation late bilinguals.</p> <p>The present study examines …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
… examine the relationship between prosody and syntax of natural languages, while also addressing the role of syntactic phrase length, with the ultimate goal of using prosody to improve parsing.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines the effect of syntactic phrase length on prosody in double center …
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
… 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 speakers and how …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary ambiguity of the first prepositional phrase (PP1: <em>in the drawer</em>), which tends to be interpreted initially as the goal argument of the verb <em>cram</em>. If the …
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Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment
… 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 conversation but varies widely across features, speakers, and contexts, hindering broad application. …
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Correlations Between Vowel Lengths and Emotion in Narratives
… 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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Shifting Semantic Activation via Context: A Study of Aging and Semantic Network Dynamics in Word Production
… 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 interest in this domain because …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
… investigate the roles of language dominance and pragmatic competence in how heritage speakers of Mandarin Chinese process aspectual coercion in their non-dominant home language, as compared to late bilinguals. Specifically, constructions that vary in acceptability and salience in input …
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Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language
… 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 and monolingual children. …
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On the Screen, In the Mind: An ERP Investigation into the Interaction Between Visuo-Spatial Information and Spatial Language During On-Line Processing
… to prepositional phrases involving concrete and abstract reference nouns (e.g., "plate" and "moment", respectively) after the presentation of objects with varying spatial features. Prepositional phrases were headed by <em>in </em>or <em>on </em>and were either matching (e.g., "in the …
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Single-Case Pilot Study For Longitudinal Analysis Of Referential Failures And Sentiment In Schizophrenic Speech From Client-Centered Psychotherapy Recordings
… to as referential failures, which were reviewed and confirmed by multiple raters. Speech samples were analyzed using Google Cloud Natural Language API software for sentiment variables (i.e., score, valence, and magnitude). Referential failures and sentiment variables were analyzed within each …
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Type of Glossing Affects Cognitive Load and Retrieval of Meaning During L2 Reading
… of controversial debate, nevertheless, glossing—and, specifically, interlinear glossing—remains an understudied type of materials, despite having been used by learners and teachers of foreign languages since at least 1000 C.E. (Bata, Gwara & Porter, 1997). In the absence of a comprehensive …
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The Intersection of Speech-Language Pathologists’ Beliefs, Perceptions, and Practices and the Language Acquisition and Development of Emerging Aided Communicators
… discusses the convergence of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, the language acquisition and development of young children who are minimally verbal or nonverbal who acquire their native language while simultaneously learning to use an aided AAC system, and explicit …
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Stigmatization of Psychological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Effects of Diagnostic Labeling in a Legal Context
… mental health problems (James & Glaze, 2006) and specific diagnostic labels have been shown to adversely affect sentencing outcomes (e.g., Edens, Desforges, Fernandez, & Palac, 2004). We applied social categorization, attribution theory, and psychological essentialism to clarify the ways …
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Literacy Revolution: How the New Tools of Communication Change the Stories We Tell
… history. Verbal literacy, or the ability to read and write, is slowly being replaced by visual literacy as a primary tool for human communication. As a culture, we tend to underestimate the creative ferment of our increasingly visual world. The linear, structured pathways of traditional literacy …
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Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence
… is invaluable for learning, social interaction, and communication. In clinical populations with developmental disorders of speech comprehension, the severity of disruption can persist and vary from limiting occupational opportunities to lower performance outcomes. Previous research has reported …