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Nitschke, Sanjo; Kidd, Evan; Serratrice, Ludovica – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The present study investigated L1 transfer effects in L2 sentence processing and syntactic priming through comprehension in speakers of German and Italian. L1 and L2 speakers of both languages participated in a syntactic priming experiment that aimed to shift their preferred interpretation of ambiguous relative clause constructions. The results…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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McCabe, Ann E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Preschool children's ability to associate pairs of toys was studied under one of four experimental conditions. All three subject-involvement conditions produced better learning. (ST)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Experiential Learning, Language Acquisition, Linguistics
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1977
This study reveals that children from the age of four to six years are unable to segment meaningful sentences into component words. The experiment investigated three hypotheses of performance on a word-learning task for beginning readers and prereaders. Readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education