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Direct linkVilkaite, Laura – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Numerous studies have shown processing advantages for collocations, but they only investigated processing of adjacent collocations (e.g., "provide information"). However, in naturally occurring language, nonadjacent collocations ("provide" some of the "information") are equally, if not more frequent. This raises the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Eye Movements, Task Analysis
Zimmer, Elly Jane – First Language, 2017
This study asks whether children accept both interpretations of ambiguous sentences with contexts supporting each option. Twenty-six 3- to 5-year-old English-speaking children and a control group of 30 English-speaking adults participated in a truth value judgment task. As a step towards evaluating the complexity of syntactic ambiguity, the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Comprehension, Ambiguity (Semantics), Syntax
Download full textCheca-Garcia, Irene – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
This study investigates the preferences for attachment of a relative clause (RC) to a complex noun phrase (NP) of the type: NP1 of NP2, in Spanish-English bilinguals and advanced learners of Spanish. Spanish speakers show a moderate preference for attaching the RC to the first NP, while speakers of English prefer the second NP. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Bilingualism
Schmid, Monika S. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
A controversial topic in research on second-language acquisition is whether residual variability and optionality in high-proficiency late second-language (L2) learners is merely the outcome of cross-linguistic transfer, competition, and processing limitations, or whether late learners have an underlying representational deficit due to maturational…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Skill Attrition, Transfer of Training
Wolter, Brent; Gyllstad, Henrik – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article assesses the influence of L1 intralexical knowledge on the formation of L2 intralexical collocations. Two tests, a primed lexical decision task (LDT) and a test of receptive collocational knowledge, were administered to a group of non-native speakers (NNSs) (L1 Swedish), with native speakers (NSs) of English serving as controls on the…
Descriptors: Priming, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
Marashi, Hamid; Maherinia, Elaheh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
Lexical items, because they are language specific forms are undoubtedly one of the most difficult tasks in learning a second language. Phrasal verbs perhaps further exacerbate this difficult task since the meaning of already known verbs changes drastically when combined with different particles. Hence, facilitating the learning of these commonly…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Speech Communication, Verbs, Phrase Structure
