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A language-specific comprehension strategy [PDF]
Nature, 1983 Infants acquire whatever language is spoken in the environment into which they are born. The mental capability of the newborn child is not biased in any way towards the acquisition of one human language rather than another. Because psychologists who attempt to model the process of language comprehension are interested in the structure of the human mind,
Cutler, A. +3 more
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Languages, 2021 The current study aimed at investigating the performance of bilingual children with English as an additional language (EAL) on language and literacy measures compared to monolinguals across the first four years of primary school in the U.K.
Theodora Papastefanou +2 more
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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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What absent switch costs and mixing costs during bilingual language comprehension can tell us about language control. [PDF]
, 2019 Epub 2019 Mar 28.In the current study, we set out to investigate language control, which is the process that minimizes cross-language interference, during bilingual language comprehension. According to current theories of bilingual language comprehension,
Declerck, Mathieu +4 more
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Asymmetric switch costs in numeral naming and number word reading: Implications for models of bilingual language production [PDF]
, 2016 One approach used to gain insight into the processes underlying bilingual language comprehension and production examines the costs that arise from switching languages.
Peressotti, Francesca +2 more
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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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Investigating speech and language impairments in delirium: a preliminary case-control study [PDF]
, 2018 IntroductionLanguage impairment is recognized as as part of the delirium syndrome, yet there is little neuropsychological research on the nature of this dysfunction. Here we hypothesized that patients with delirium show impairments in language formation,
Clarke, Caoimhe +7 more
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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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Prediction During Natural Language Comprehension [PDF]
Cerebral Cortex, 2015 The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from information theory, during story comprehension. We assessed the effect of entropy of next-word probability distributions as well as surprisal A computational model determined ...
Willems, R. +4 more
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An integrated theory of language production and comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people ...
Chang, F., Kidd, E., Rowland, C.
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