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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"self-paced listening"”.
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
… role of language dominance. This thesis uses a self-paced listening task to explicitly 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. …
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A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian
… obtained from real-time implicit tasks (i.e., self-paced listening tasks and visual-world eye-tracking paradigm) are different from offline explicit tasks (i.e., acceptability judgement task and forced-choice task). The results of real-time implicit tasks show that (i) speakers process the new …
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Inference Generation and Reading Disability
… typical readers. In Experiments 1, 2, 3 and 4 a self-paced reading paradigm was employed to assess on-line inference generation. Reading times to target sentences that were consistent and inconsistent with inferred context were compared. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that children made inferences …
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Multilingualism and Diglossia in Hong-Kong Secondary Schools: Switching effects in cognition and language processing
The bilingual advantage in cognitive switching has been extensively documented in the literature (e.g., Bialystok, 2011; Bialystok, 2015). This thesis focuses on the cognitive gains of bilinguals in task-switching, specifically. If we assume that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in non-verbal …