Abstract The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine nonlocal agreement processing between native (L1) English speakers and Chinese–English second language (L2) learners, whose L1 lacks number agreement. We manipulated marking with determiners ( the vs. that/these ) see how determiner-specification influences both nonnative downstream for verbal Behavioral ERP results sugg...

Abstract The aim of our study was to examine the longitudinal associations between two forms second language (L2) knowledge (i.e., explicit and implicit knowledge) activity types that facilitate different processing mechanisms form- meaning-focused processing). L2 English speakers completed tests (untimed written grammaticality judgment test metalinguistic test) three (timed test, oral producti...

This study examined the extent to which textual enhancement incorporated into post-task stage of task-based reading lessons can promote development in second language (L2) grammatical knowledge. The participants were 49 child learners who participated their own classroom contexts. They randomly assigned two groups, one being exposed and other not. experiment adopted a multiple-exposure design i...

Many reports have described that a survival judgment task that requires participants to judge words according to their relevance to a survival situation can engender better recall than that obtained in other judgment tasks such as semantic or self-judgment tasks. We investigated whether memory enhancement related to the survival judgment task is elicited or not in subclinically depressed partic...

We investigated the potential influence of implicit learning mechanisms on L2 morphosyntactic attainment by examining relationship between age onset (AoO), two cognitive abilities hypothesized to underlie (phonological short-term memory and statistical learning), performance an auditory grammaticality judgment test (GJT). Participants were 71 Polish-English long-term bilinguals with a wide rang...

Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is a form of nondeclarative memory that involves the nonconscious acquisition of abstract rules. While data from amnesic patients indicate that AGL does not depend on the medial temporal lobe, the neural basis of this type of memory is unknown and was therefore examined using event-related fMRI. Prior to scanning, participants studied letter strings constructed...

Headline summarization is a difficult task because it requires maximizing text content in short summary length while maintaining grammaticality. This paper describes our first attempt toward solving this problem with a system that generates key headline clusters and fine-tunes them using templates.

This study explored the acquisition of Arabic and English relative clauses by L2 learners. It examined extent to which Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) (Keenan Comrie 1977) Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) (Eckman account for pronouns Twenty Arabic-speaking learners twenty English-speaking were selected. To this end, four different tasks used in regard, namely Sentence Combina...