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Tian, Ye; Maruyama, Takehiko; Ginzburg, Jonathan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
There is an ongoing debate whether phenomena of disfluency (such as filled pauses) are produced communicatively. Clark and Fox Tree ("Cognition" 84(1):73-111, 2002) propose that filled pauses are words, and that different forms signal different lengths of delay. This paper evaluates this Filler-As-Words hypothesis by analyzing the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Research, Memory, English
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Portolano, Marlana – World Englishes, 2008
Cued American English (CAE) is a visual variety of English derived from a mode of communication called Cued Speech (CS). CS, or cueing, is a system of communication for use with the deaf, which consists of hand shapes, hand placements, and mouth shapes that signify the phonemic information conventionally conveyed through speech in spoken…
Descriptors: Cued Speech, Language Variation, Suprasegmentals, Deafness
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Blom, Elma; Polisenska, Daniela; Weerman, Fred – Second Language Research, 2008
A comparison of the error profiles of monolingual (child L1) learners of Dutch, Moroccan children (child L2) and Moroccan adults (adult L2) learning Dutch as their L2 shows that participants in all groups massively overgeneralize [-neuter] articles to [+neuter] contexts. In all groups, the reverse gender mistake infrequently occurs. Gender…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Adult Learning