Experience and sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension

Experience and sentence processing: statistical learning and relative clause comprehension.

Many explanations of the difficulties associated with interpreting object relative clauses appeal to the demands that object relatives make on working memory. MacDonald and Christiansen [MacDonald, M. C., & Christiansen, M. H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54] pointed to variations in reading ...

Production predicts comprehension: Animacy effects in Mandarin relative clause processing

Structural Expectations in Chinese Relative Clause Comprehension

Relative clauses (RC) are among the most well-studied constructions in the field of psycholinguistics. A wide variety of work explores a robust processing asymmetry such that subject relatives (SRs) are easier to process than object relatives (ORs). For example, English shows a subject advantage, as demonstrated by a number of studies involving different measures including: self-paced reading (...

Relative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L1 and L2: Are Processing Strategies Transferred?

This study aims at investigating whether Persian native speakers highly advanced in English as a second language (L2ers) can switch to optimal processing strategies in the languages they know and whether working memory capacity (WMC) plays a role in this respect. To this end, using a self-paced reading task, we examined the processing strategies 62 Persian speaking proficient L2ers used to read...

intentional and incidental vocabulary learning through listening comprehension

یکی از مسایل مهم در یادگیری زبان ، یادگیری لغت است. هدف این تحقیق ، بررسی یاد گیری شیوه های مستقیم و غیر مستقیم فراگیری لغت درفرایند شنیداری زبان است و اینکه کدامیک از آنها برای بهبود و تسهیل یادگیری واژگان زبان آموزان سطح متوسطه موثرترند.این تحقیق تفاوت بین تاثیر فراگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقیم لغت در فرایند شنیداری زبان در کوتاه مدت را بررسی می کند ، سپس تفاوت بین تاثیر یادگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقی...