When speech is ambiguous gesture steps in: Sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic principles in early childhood [0.03%]
当言语含糊其辞时手势会跟上脚步：儿童早期对话语语用原则的敏感性
Wing Chee So,Ozlem Ece Demir,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Wing Chee So
Young children produce gestures to disambiguate arguments. This study explores whether the gestures they produce are constrained by discourse-pragmatic principles: person and information status. We ask whether children use gesture more ofte...
Carrie N Jackson,Susan C Bobb
Carrie N Jackson
Using the self-paced-reading paradigm, the present study examines whether highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German (English L1) use case-marking information during the on-line comprehension of unambiguous wh-extractions, ev...
The influence of visual feedback and register changes on sign language production: A kinematic study with deaf signers [0.03%]
手势反馈和变档变化对聋人手语生成的影响：一项动态研究
Karen Emmorey,Nelly Gertsberg,Franco Korpics et al.
Karen Emmorey et al.
Speakers monitor their speech output by listening to their own voice. However, signers do not look directly at their hands and cannot see their own face. We investigated the importance of a visual perceptual loop for sign language monitorin...
When study abroad experience fails to deliver: The internal resources threshold effect [0.03%]
当留学经历未能兑现时：内部资源阈值效应
Gretchen Sunderman,Judith F Kroll
Gretchen Sunderman
Some second language (L2) learners return from study abroad experiences with seemingly no change in their L2 ability. In this study we investigate whether a certain level of internal cognitive resources is necessary in order for individuals...
A cross-linguistic and bilingual evaluation of the interdependence between lexical and grammatical domains [0.03%]
词汇与语法领域的相互依赖性的跨语言和双语评估
Gabriela Simon-Cereijido,Vera F Gutiérrez-Clellen
Gabriela Simon-Cereijido
The purpose of this study was to examine within and across language relationships between lexical and grammatical domains by focusing on measures of lexical diversity and grammatical complexity in Spanish and English. One hundred and ninety...
The Acquisition of Tense in English: Distinguishing child second language from first language and specific language impairment [0.03%]
英语时态习得研究：区分儿童第二语言和第一语言以及特定语言发育障碍的方法
Johanne Paradis,Mabel L Rice,Martha Crago et al.
Johanne Paradis et al.
This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2) and specifically language-impaired (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain...