Marchand, Tim. 2013. Speech in written form? A corpus analysis of computer-mediated communication. Linguistic Research 30(2), 217-242. This paper investigates the nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and examine whether CMC more closely resembles written or spoken language in its structure and organization. The CMC in this paper refers to messages posted on the BBC’s Have Your Say we...

High and low tones on Swedish word stems are associated with different classes of suffixes. We tested the electrophysiological effects of high and low stem tones as well as tonally cued and uncued suffixes. Two different tasks were used involving either choosing the suffix-dependent meaning of the words, or pressing a button when the word ended. To determine whether effects were in fact due to ...

Lexical bundles, as fixed-form recurrent word combinations of multiple words, constitute a significant portion academic writing and play pivotal role in producing fluent texts. Extant studies on lexical bundles have documented difficulties that second language learners, particularly writers experience these their writing. However, despite an extensive existing body research the use various fiel...

Abstract Current approaches to the human language faculty emphasize that during real-time processing anticipatory mechanisms play a vital role for people parse and comprehend linguistic input at sufficient pace. Consistent with this view, several Event-Related Potential (ERP) behavioral self-paced reading (SPR) studies revealed disadvantage pre-nominal elements (grammatically) mismatched an exp...

Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) has a broad impact on cognitive development including nearly every aspect of language ability. In infancy, lower SES is associated with delays in real-time language processing skills, but it is not known whether or how this relationship carries into adulthood. We explore these questions by assessing the timecourse of anticipatory sentence interpretation in a...