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Yudes, Carolina; Macizo, Pedro; Morales, Luis; Bajo, M. Teresa – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
In the current study we explored lexical, syntactic, and semantic processes during text comprehension in English monolinguals and Spanish/English (first language/second language) bilinguals with different experience in interpreting (nontrained bilinguals, interpreting students and professional interpreters). The participants performed an…
Descriptors: Translation, Syntax, Semantics, Spanish
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Law, Sam-Po; Yeung, Olivia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study examined the effects of the age of acquisition (AOA) and semantic transparency on the reading aloud ability of a Chinese dyslexic individual, TWT, who relied on the semantic pathway to name characters. Both AOA and semantic transparency significantly predicted naming accuracy and distinguished the occurrence of correct responses and…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Semantics, Age, Dyslexia
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Royle, Phaedra; Thordardottir, Elin T. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
This study examines inflectional abilities in French-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI) using a verb elicitation task. Eleven children with SLI and age-matched controls (37-52 months) participated in the experiment. We elicited the "passe compose" using eight regular and eight irregular high frequency verbs matched for age…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Error Patterns, French
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Aydin, Ozgur – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
The purposes of this study are to test whether the processing of subject relative (SR) clauses is easier than that of object relative (OR) clauses in Turkish and to investigate whether the comprehension of SRs can be better explained by the linear distance hypothesis or structural distance hypothesis (SDH). The question is examined in two groups…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Turkish, French
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Harley, Trevor A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Environmentally contaminated speech errors (irrelevant words or phrases derived from the speaker's environment and erroneously incorporated into speech) are hypothesized to occur at a high level of speech processing, but with a relatively late insertion point. The data indicate that speech production processes are not independent of other…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research
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Edwards, Jan; Lahey, Margaret – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
To examine possible explanations of reported inaccuracies of children with specific language impairment (SLI) on nonword repetition, study compared repetitions of 54 SLI children and peers for number and type of error, latency, and duration of response. Found no evidence of differences between groups in auditory discrimination or response…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)