This study examined the syntactic structure and characteristics of sentence constructions using Japanese term “-negau” corresponding Korean “-himanghada.” The data for were extracted from “Syounagon” a corpus published by Japan’s National Institute Language Linguistics, example sentences modified in way that did not affect study. Native native speakers assisted determining data’s sufficiency. s...

Online sentence comprehension involves multiple types of cognitive processes: lexical processes such as lexical access, which call on the user's knowledge of the meaning of words in the language, and structural processes such as the integration of incoming words into an emerging representation. In this article, we investigate the temporal dynamics of lexical access and syntactic integration. Un...

This study compared the effects of syntactic focus and context on word processing speed and word recall in L1 and L2, using 80 adult native German L2 learners of English and 30 native speakers of British English as controls. Recorded sentence stimuli were used to compare cleft and non-cleft sentences, native and non-native language speakers, and presence and absence of additional context inform...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the pressure-flow characteristics of a large sample of speakers without cleft palate ranging in age from early childhood to young adulthood. METHOD Speakers consisted of 223 children, teens, and adults without cleft palate categorized into five age groups: 6 through 8 years, 9 through 10, 11 through 12, 13 through 16, and 18 through 37 years...

Introduction. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the NasalView system as a screening tool for hypernasality within the scope of a routine diagnostic procedure in cleft lip and palate patients. Material and Methods. In a collective of 95 patients with cleft and lip palate ranging from 4 to 25 years of age, hypernasality was exploited perceptually,...

2 Abstract A fundamental task of the language comprehension system is to assign thematic roles to concepts in sentences and then maintain them. The comprehension system has access to two sources of information for thematic roles: one is the syntactic structure, and the other is information in long-term memory. In a sentence such as the dog was bitten by the man, the syntactic source specifies t...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates whether a change in speaking voice focus affects the oral-nasal balance. The investigation was undertaken with different phonetic materials in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, which features phonological and phonetic vowel nasalization. METHODS Ten females read oral, balanced oral-nasal, and nasal loaded sentences in their normal voice, and with a backward ...

This study applied ERB analysis for measuring acoustic correlates of hypernasal fricatives produced by speakers with different aetiologies (cleft palate, maxillectomy and dysarthria). The speech materials were consonants /n/ and /s/ segmented from two Cantonese single words and four Cantonese oral sentences. Results showed that hypernasal speakers produced /s/ with significantly higher mean amp...

This study applied ERB analysis for measuring acoustic correlates of hypernasal fricatives produced by speakers with different aetiologies (cleft palate, maxillectomy and dysarthria). The speech materials were consonants /n/ and /s/ segmented from two Cantonese single words and four Cantonese oral sentences. Results showed that hypernasal speakers produced /s/ with significantly higher mean amp...