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Direct linkFine, Alex Brabham – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A fundamental challenge for human cognition is perceiving and acting in a world in which the statistics that characterize available sensory data are non-stationary. This thesis focuses on this problem specifically in the domain of sentence comprehension, where linguistic variability poses computational challenges to the processes underlying…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Research, Syntax, Language Variation
Download full textSteffensen, Margaret S.; And Others – 1981
A study investigated one aspect of the speech/reading comprehension relationship--that between the ability to select the correct standard English verbal endings (-s and -ed) and the ability to recognize the tense of a passage when time information was encoded primarily in the verbs and adverbs. Subjects were 135 third, sixth, and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education
Ku-Mesu, Katalin Egri – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
A study applied Relevance Theory to interpretation of texts written in Ghanaian English, particularly those intended for reading by multiple audiences. The nature of such "hybrid" texts is examined and key principles of Relevance Theory are outlined. Relevance is defined in terms of contextual effect and processing effort. Contextual…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Communication Problems, Cultural Relevance, English
Bruce, Nigel J., Ed.; Crewe, William J., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1989
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "The Revision Process in Academic Writing: From Pen and Paper to Word Processor" (Stephen Chadwick, Nigel Bruce); "Sentence Sequence and Coherence: In Search of Readers' Problems in Academic Discourse" (Desmond Allison); "Plural Marking in Hong Kong English" (Carol…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Coherence
Laberge, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and…
Descriptors: Basque, Black Dialects, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Consonants
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (Singapore). Regional Language Centre. – 1992
The 12 issues of the second language teaching and research journal, spanning 1988-1993 contain articles on a variety of language teaching and learning issues. A substantial proportion concern English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, both general and academic, in a number of Southeast Asian cultural contexts. Regional variations of English are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
