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Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language
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Paradis, J., Crago, M., Goldberg, H.
The English second language development of 19 children (mean age at outset = 5 years, 4 months) from various first language backgrounds was examined every 6 months for 2 years, using spontaneous language sampling, parental questionnaires, and a standardized receptive vocabulary test. Results...
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2019-03-26
Pearl Lorentzen, Filip Nenadić, Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Although most auditory lexical decision experiments are performed in a laboratory setting, humans tend to communicate in uncontrolled and noisy environments. We investigated, indirectly, the impact of noise and other distractions on lexical processing. The present study used a subset of words...
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Measuring the dispersion of density in head and neck cancer patients' vowel spaces: The vowel dispersion index
Download2019-10-16
Matthew C. Kelley, Daniel Aalto
The present study introduces a measure of the dispersion of density throughout the vowel space, which we refer to as the vowel dispersion index. The vowel dispersion index is based on calculating the total variation of the density values in Story & Bunton’s (2017) convex hull representation of...
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2019-03-26
Anastasia Chuprina, Nicholas Lester, Natalia Slioussar
In the mental lexicon words are connected to each other through various paths. We explore how a word’s representation might be accessed, depending on its syntactic properties and shared formal properties with other members of a morphological family. Morphological families of verbs in Russian are...
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Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
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Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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Patterns of usage for English sit, stand, and lie: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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Prosodic focus marking in clefts and syntactically unmarked equivalents: Prosody–syntax trade-off or additive effects?
Download2021-01-01
Two experiments quantitatively investigated the interaction of prosody and syntax in marking focus in English. A production study with 28 participants (analyzing 919 utterances) found that the acoustic marking of subject focus vs broad focus, induced through a preceding context question, was...
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2016-04-01
Claims regarding the genetic relationship between the Sáliban languages rest solely on a number of lexical comparisons that only identify resemblances between lexical items. In this study, I reconstruct two distinct verb classes for Proto-Sáliban and the consonants in the animate subject person...