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Slevc, L. Robert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The role of working memory (WM) in sentence comprehension has received considerable interest, but little work has investigated how sentence production relies on memory mechanisms. Three experiments investigated speakers' tendency to produce syntactic structures that allow for early production of material that is accessible in memory. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Experiments, Memory
Chou, Chun-Hui; Bartz, Kevin – California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2007
This paper evaluates the effect of Chinese non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) on Chinese ESL students' struggles with English syntax. The paper first classifies Chinese learners' syntactic errors into 10 common types. It demonstrates how each type of error results from an internal attempt to translate a common Chinese construction into…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)