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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"paced reading"”.
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… in the dissertation. Experiment 1 used a self-paced reading paradigm to investigate how L1 English speakers and L2 speakers with L1 Mandarin Chinese process filler-gap dependencies with varying dependency lengths (long vs. short) and filler plausibility (plausible vs. implausible). The results …
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Inflectional morphology in the literacy of deaf children
… morpho-syntactic awareness – in a self-paced reading task they revealed sensitivity to subject-verb number agreement. However, deaf children demonstrated limited knowledge of irregular plural nouns and of morpho-syntax. In the self-paced reading task, they were slow to perform syntactic …
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Implicit graphemic cues in Thai reading
… boundaries typically show improvements in early reading time measures when spaces are inserted. However, it seems that Thai may not follow this same trend (Winskel, Radach, & Luksaneeyanawin, 2009). One potential explanation is that Thai orthography may provide other cues that guide readers in …
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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
… morphology. Participants completed an online reading task using a moving window self-paced reading paradigm. In order to explore whether increases in structural distance between agreeing elements leads to decreases in sensitivity to agreement violations (Clahsen & Felser, 2006; Gabriele et …
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Going Above and Beyond: Motivation in The Reading Lab
… time spent and activities completed in a self-paced reading lab at one Southern California community college. The methodology of the study utilized in person interviews with a sample of 30 participants. Each participant was asked the same ten questions associated with why they were motivated …
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Developing EFL Reading Fluency in Upper Elementary Schools in China
… the importance of developing EFL students’ reading fluency, and more importantly, to provide specific curriculum for upper elementary school EFL students to improve their reading fluency. The most important intervention being used in this curriculum is extensive reading which appears in …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… these cues in real-time processing. In two self-paced reading experiments, Chapter 2 compared L1-Mandarin speakers of L2 English and L1-Korean speakers of L2 English with native English speakers on the resolution of temporary DO/SC ambiguity in sentences. Results showed that similar to native …
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Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation in relative clause garden-path constructions
… 2018). The current study reports three self-paced reading experiments that tested whether co-occurring cues (explicit comprehension questions, preceding semantic cues, and font color) can help facilitate adaptation to reduced relative/main verb garden path sentences. Results suggest that …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… in Norwegian. The results from the online self-paced reading task and the offline agent identification task show that both groups are able to identify the non-canonical word order and show a facilitatory effect of animate subjects in their reanalysis. Similarly high error rates in the agent …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a word-by-word non-cumulative moving window paradigm (Just et al., 1982). Experiment 1 tested if second language (L2) learners process wh-dependencies incrementally by looking at wh-extraction from positions licensed …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… & Costa 2014). Moreover, in the case of a RC reading with multiple possible attachment sites, the parser must additionally decide where to attach the embedded CP (LATE CLOSURE, Frazier 1978). Should structures at more external interfaces (e.g., the syntax-discourse interface) be more …
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… under conditions of cue competition in silent reading; this is achieved by investigating the influence of formal cues commonly found in poetry, namely rhyme, meter and lineation. Whereas previous studies have examined competition between structural preferences (e.g. syntax-based parsing …
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The formation of Chinese multi-word constructions: evidence from the processing and production of Chinese native speakers
… two blank conditions of the VCC context; a self-paced reading task compared native speakers’ reaction times to the VCC and non-VCC chunks of controlled frequencies. The overall findings confirm that native speakers perceive the VCCs the same way as they are derived according to the syntactic …
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Working memory and prediction in human sentence parsing
… 2011). Three experiments (eye-tracking and self-paced reading) on German reflexives and Swedish possessives were designed to tease apart cue-based retrieval interference from encoding interference. The results of all three experiments suggest that there is no evidence that encoding interference …
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The use of focus cues in healthy ageing
… including sentence continuation studies, self-paced reading studies, delayed probe recognition and eye-tracking studies, and one change detection study investigating the effect of focus and related cues on an older age group. The main findings are older adults showed in some cases larger …
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Effects of positive evidence, indirect negative evidence and form-function transparency on second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese and L2 Thai
… an acceptability judgment task and a self-paced reading task. It is found that both Chinese and Thai learners could perform native-like in their acceptance of TL word orders since early stages of acquisition. However, it took them until an advanced level to be able to completely reject …
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Transformer-Maze
… the most prevalent being eye-tracking and self-paced reading (SPR). However, a lesser-known tool called the Maze task, more specifically G(rammatical)- Maze, is arguably a better choice for detecting and localizing differences in processing difficulty from word to word. In G-Maze, a participant …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
… interpretation by using off-line and on-line reading times and event-related potential measurements. Time courses of when such decision was made were also investigated. Two self-paced reading experiments used sentences containing two possible antecedents for Mandarin reflexives ziji and taziji …
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Inference Generation and Reading Disability
… 10-year-old children. Using the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) as a framework to classify reading disability, poor comprehenders and poor decoders were compared with chronological age-matched typical readers. In Experiments 1, 2, 3 and 4 a self-paced reading paradigm was employed …
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The time course of sentence interpretation
… to heuristics-based interpretation. Both self-paced reading and eyetracking data are supportive of a processing model in which syntax informs the interpretation process first, but is later overruled by pragmatic constraints. Investigations into the conditions for shallow processing indicate a …
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