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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sentence Reading"”.
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An Investigation into How Word Learning Modality Influences Subsequent Word Processing During Sentence Reading
… modality and subsequent word knowledge, like reading comprehension ability, phonological decoding skills, phonological recoding skills, and orthographic transparency, were examined. Behavioral results indicated word learning modality influenced word identification accuracy and orthographic …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
Mild reading difficulties are a pervasive symptom in aphasia, but are little researched. Eye tracking research with neurologically healthy participants has demonstrated that reading is influenced by a number of information sources that are related to our experience with language. Two of these …
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Eye movements in reading strategies : how reading strategies modulate effects of distributed processing and oculomotor control
… has always been aware of the differences in reading behavior induced by individual differences and task demands. This work introduces a novel comprehensive concept of reading strategy, comprising individual differences in reading style and reading skill as well as reader goals. In a series of …
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The Role of Motivation in Second Language Pronunciation
… including a picture description task, paragraph reading task, sentence reading and word reading task. Fifteen native speaker (NS) controls also produced the same speech samples. Four NSs judged all participants' accents. Six NNSs scored as highly as NSs on some of the speech segments using a …
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Auditory and Visual Correlates of the Processing of Gapping Structures in Adults
… effects of speech processing and effects in sentence reading elicited by sentences containing gapping structures, or a "missing" verb. N400 and P600 waveforms were collected in 20 adults between 18 and 30 years of age. Two experiments were conducted with each participant. In the two …
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The effects of levels of sentential context on scope of reference for contextually defined categories
… In Experiment 1, people read pairs of sentences. In each pair, the first sentence included a category term whose interpretation was constrained by contextual information to either a low, moderate, or high degree. The second, target sentence contained a category exemplar that matched the …
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The effects of language instruction on L2 learners’ input processing and learning outcomes
… as measured via eyetracking (Total Dwell Time reading measures); however, this only occurred in one of the two interpretation tests employed. Furthermore, the present study also found that language instruction led to L2 learners’ interpretation and production learning gains, as measured by …
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the Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay In Spanish Anaphora Comprehension
… pronouns when the antecedent is the subject of a sentence, an effect which they called the Repeated Name Penalty (RNP). The RNP has been demonstrated in English, and it has also been extended to Mandarin Chinese (Yang, Gordon, Hendrick, & Wu, 1999), which is a fully pro drop language. However, it …
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The role of memory processes and quality of lexical representations in native and non-native reading comprehension
… support parsing and how they constrain sentence comprehension during first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence reading. Although two memory-based accounts in sentence processing research, the capacity-based model (Just & Carpenter, 1992; King & Just, 1991) and the cue-based …
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Interaction, corrective feedback, and the development of lexical stress
… control groups. The pre- and posttests comprised sentence-reading and decision-making tasks that contained three-syllable words with stress on the second syllable as the target vocabulary. All learners participated in an interactive role-play task, with learners in the intervention group receiving …
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Understanding dyslexia by measuring eye-movements during reading.
… examining dyslexic parafoveal processing during reading. The experiments presented throughout this thesis examined whether parafoveal processing is less efficient for dyslexic readers compared to non-dyslexic readers (Jones, Ashby, & Branigan, 2013), and, explored the nature of dyslexic eye …
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Neurocognitive plasticity in verb bias learning in children and adults
… a critical parsing constraint that guides online sentence comprehension. Both adults and preschoolers show great sensitivity to verb bias in their temporary parsing commitment as sentences unfold in time. How do people learn verb bias in the first place? In natural language, frequency-sensitive …
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Factors influencing the efficacy of delayed auditory feedback in treating dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease
… design was utilized. The A phases consisted of a sentence reading task using DAF, while the B phases incorporated clinician instruction into the DAF protocol. During each of the 16 experimental sessions, speakers read with four different delay intervals (0 ms, 50 ms, 100 ms, and 150 ms). During …
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Neuropsychological and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations of anterior temporal lobe language function in patients with epilepsy : a pilot study
… the two new fMRI tasks (Famous Faces naming, and Sentence Reading) resulted in the expected activation of language areas in group averaged data, they did not elicit consistent ATL activation across individuals, and subsequently did not meet the iii criteria recommended for fMRI protocol …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… task, and production data was elicited with a sentence reading task. The results showed that whereas monolinguals perceptually repaired illegal consonant sequences with an illusory vowel in a vowel detection task, bilinguals were more faithful to the acoustic signal. In production, greater …