The position advanced in this paper is that the effective application of psycholinguistic models and techniques to the design of collaborative systems requires a more detailed analysis of the processes of repair. Although the analysis of communication is critical to understanding and supporting cooperative activity, the successful application of psycholinguistic approaches is restricted by some...

This study investigates the on-line processing of context coercion in Mandarin Chinese. Context coercion is a kind of situation shift that is implicitly and contextually governed by the semantic reinterpretation process. We hypothesize that the coercion constructions are syntactically and semantically complicated than transparent sentences and should be more difficult to process. A self-paced r...

In this study 160 children, aged 11 years with a definite history of specific language impairment (SLI), completed four tasks that could be potential positive psycholinguistic markers for this impairment: a third person singular task, a past tense task, a nonword repetition task, and a sentence repetition task. This allowed examination of more than one type of marker simultaneously, facilitatin...

It has been one of the tasks of phonologists since the time of Panini or Plato to demonstrate relationships between words based on their sound. In the past 200 years this has meant establishing the historical connection between words, i.e., to show that due to sound change, the same morpheme could show divergent forms in different phonological, morphological, or dialectal environments. More rec...

PsychoNet 1 has demonstrated the feasibility of integrating psycholinguistic taxonomy, represented in LIWC, and its semantic textual representation in the form of commonsense ontology, represented in ConceptNet. However, various limitations exist in PsychoNet 1, including the lack of concluding context of the concept annotation. In this paper, we address most of those limitations and introduce ...

Synaesthesia has been described as a perceptual phenomenon that creates a 'merging of senses'. Therefore, academic treatments have focused primarily on its sensory characteristics and similarities with veridical perception. This approach has dominated, despite parallel work that has suggested conceptual influences are involved, including data that show a large number of synaesthetic variants ar...

This article presents the benefits of using online methodologies in second language acquisition (SLA) research. It provides a selection of online experiments that have been widely used in first and second language processing studies that are suitable for SLA research and most importantly discusses the hardware and software packages and other equipment required for the setting-up of a psycholing...

In this article, we present normative data for 2,423 Chinese single-character words. For each word, we report values for the following 15 variables: word frequency, cumulative frequency, homophone density, phonological frequency, age of learning, age of acquisition, number of word formations, number of meanings, number of components, number of strokes, familiarity, concreteness, imageability, r...

The effect and quality of education is the fundamental of higher education, and instructional reform is the core one of all reforms in higher education. In order to motivate the instructional reform and enhance the quality of education, the department of education in China has evaluated and rewarded the study performance in instructional practice of educators in higher learning instructions sin...