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Investigating Thematic Roles through Implicit Learning: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The syntactic structure of a sentence is usually a strong predictor of its meaning: Each argument noun phrase (i.e., Subject and Object) should map onto exactly one thematic role (i.e., Agent and Patient, respectively).
Eva Wittenberg +2 more
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Reading comprehension in developmental disorders of language and communication [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Deficits in reading airment (SLI), Down syndrome (DS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: In this review (based on a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge database to 2011), the Simple View of Reading is used as a framework for ...
Ricketts, Jessie, Jessie Ricketts
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Reading Comprehension in French L2/L3 Learners: Does Syntactic Awareness Matter?
Languages, 2022 This study examines the contributions of syntactic awareness to reading comprehension, both within and across languages, in third-grade children learning French as a second (L2) or third language (L3).
Juwairia Sohail +3 more
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Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity. [PDF]
, 2007 Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience pragmatic language deficits, but it is not known whether these difficulties are primarily associated with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or both.
Cain, Kate, Bignell, Simon
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Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2016 Abstract Over the past two decades, ‘visually situated’ language comprehension (the interplay between language comprehension, attention, and non‐linguistic visual context) has emerged as an increasingly active area of research. One important result in this area is that both linguistic and world knowledge, as well as visual cues, can ...
Pia Knoeferle, Ernesto Guerra
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We examined the relative contribution of auditory processing abilities (tone perception and speech perception in noise) after controlling for short-term memory capacity and vocabulary, to narrative language comprehension in children with developmental ...
Beula M. Magimairaj +5 more
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Crossmodal Language Comprehension—Psycholinguistic Insights and Computational Approaches
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020 Crossmodal interaction in situated language comprehension is important for effective and efficient communication. The relationship between linguistic and visual stimuli provides mutual benefit: While vision contributes, for instance, information to ...
Özge Alaçam +3 more
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Word-to-text integration components in second language (L2) reading comprehension
Frontiers in Education, 2022 Recognition of individual words serves as an initial basis for comprehension of a written text; yet there are complex word-to-text (WTT) integration processes underlying the comprehension. This study focused on two components of WTT integration, that is,
Mona Alshehri, Dongbo Zhang
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Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing, 2016 We present the EpiReader, a novel model for machine comprehension of text. Machine comprehension of unstructured, real-world text is a major research goal for natural language processing. Current tests of machine comprehension pose questions whose answers can be inferred from some supporting text, and evaluate a model’s response to the questions.
Adam Trischler +5 more
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Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2019 Background During the first 3-years of life, as the brain undergoes dramatic growth, children begin to develop speech and language. Hallmarks of this progression are seen when children reach developmental milestones, forming the foundation of language ...
Stephanie N. Del Tufo +2 more
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