Research Publications (Linguistics)
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Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input?
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This study investigated whether crosslinguistic interference occurs in the domain of subject realization in Spanish in a bilingual acquisition context. We were also interested in exploring whether the source of the interference is due to child-internal crosslanguage contact between English and...
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Subjective experience of poetry: Latent structure and differences between experts and non-experts
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Nenadić, Filip, Vejnović, Dušan, Marković, Slobodan
We present a series of studies investigating subjective experience of poetry in expert and non expert readers. In the preliminary study, literature and psychology students produced adjectives descriptive of poetry. Separate lists of adjectives with 5 point Likert type scales, one for experts,...
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Individual members of the Totonacan family - a group of at least four languages spoken in East Central Mexico - have been claimed to either lack adjectives or to have only a restricted, closed class of adjectives, words expressing property concepts belonging to the class ofnoun. The basisfor this...
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2021-10-06
Lohmann, Arne, Tucker, Benjamin V.
This article reports the results of an auditory lexical decision task, testing the processing of phonetic detail of English noun/verb conversion pairs. The article builds on recent findings showing that the frequent occurrence in certain prosodic environments may lead to the storage of...
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2021-08-01
Morin, Gabrielle, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Gabrielle Morin, and Benjamin Tucker, “The acoustic characteristics of um and uh in spontaneous Canadian English,” in The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021), St. Denis, France, August 2021, pp. 53-58. The present study investigates and compares the acoustic...
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The acquisition of tense in English: Distinguishing child second language from first language and specific language impairment
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Crago, M., Marquis, J., Rice, M.L., Paradis, J.
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children’s tense acquisition patterns were...