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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"syntactic cues"”.
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"Doing and Viewing Gender" : a lens-model approach to the communicative construction of gender in task-oriented groups
… indicated that participants used semiotic cues differently, depending on their own gender, their gender-hypothesis and the concept in question. For example, in Study 1 women used more syntactic cues and men more pragmatic cues, while both used the same amount of semantic cues to infer …
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An investigation of how multiple sources of information are integrated during online reading
… investigates how effectively readers can use syntactic cues to resolve the ambiguity associated with noun/verb homographs, the downstream consequences of their resolution processes, and how these effects differ in older adults. Will readers be able to use constraining syntactic information to …
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Effects of efficient fronto-temporal circuitry on lexical ambiguity resolution: converging evidence from cross-age comparisons in eye-tracking and ERP data
… used to examine how younger and older adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). We find that young adults exhibit inflated first fixations to NV-homographs when only syntactic cues are available for disambiguation (i.e., in syntactic …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… which predicts that L2 learners will rely on non-syntactic cues (e.g., plausibility or heuristic word order) instead of morphosyntactic cues (e.g., case-marking information) in sentence processing, and build less detailed syntactic representations. However, McDonald (2006) and Hopp (2006, 2010) …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… produce prosodic focus in the absence of syntactic cues to focus. The results show that neither group of participants produced prosodic focus where it was appropriate. Although questions are raised as to whether L2 learners can produce prosodic focus when the discourse context allows it, …
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Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser
This thesis investigates the word order in the main and embedded clauses of four Swedish monolingual children, covering the age range 1;3–4;0. Using a generative framework, a quantitative and qualitative analysis focusing on the syntax of verb placement and complementizers is presented. Chapters 1 …