[PDF] Predictive Language Processing In Late Bilinguals eBook

Author : Judith Schlenter
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Release : 2019
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The current thesis examined how second language (L2) speakers of German predict upcoming input during language processing. Early research has shown that the predictive abilities of L2 speakers relative to L1 speakers are limited, resulting in the proposal of the Reduced Ability to Generate Expectations (RAGE) hypothesis. Considering that prediction is assumed to facilitate language processing in L1 speakers and probably plays a role in language learning, the assumption that L1/L2 differences can be explained in terms of different processing mechanisms is a particularly interesting approach. However, results from more recent studies on the predictive processing abilities of L2 speakers have indicated that the claim of the RAGE hypothesis is too broad and that prediction in L2 speakers could be selectively limited. In the current thesis, the RAGE hypothesis was systematically put to the test. In this thesis, German L1 and highly proficient late L2 learners of German with Russian as L1 were tested on their predictive use of one or...

Author : Edith Kaan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027258945

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There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume presents a collection of current research, insights, and directions regarding the role of prediction in L2 processing and learning. The contributions in this volume specifically address how different (L1-based) theoretical models of prediction apply to or may be expanded to account for L2 processing, report new insights on factors (linguistic, cognitive, social) that modulate L2 users’ engagement in prediction, and discuss the functions that prediction may or may not serve in L2 processing and learning. Taken together, this volume illustrates various fruitful approaches to investigating and accounting for differences in predictive processing within and across individuals, as well as across populations.

Author : R.J. Harris
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1992-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0080867375

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This collection of 33 papers represents the most current thinking andresearch on the study of cognitive processing in bilingual individuals. Thecontributors include well-known figures in the field and promising newscholars, representing four continents and work in dozens of languages.Instead of the social, political, or educational implications ofbilingualism, the focus is on how bilingual people (mostly adults) thinkand process language.

Author : Alfredo Ardila
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781600215605

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During the last years a significant number of papers, books, and monographs devoted to speech and language impairments in bilingual children have been published. Different aspects and questions have been approached and today we have a relatively good understanding of the specific characteristics of the speech and language difficulties potentially observed in bilingual and multilingual children. This interest has been significantly resulted from the potential developmental and educational consequences of bilingualism. Our understanding of the communication disorders in adult populations is notoriously more limited, even though over 50% of the adult population can speak at least another language in addition to his/her native language. That simply means that over 50% of the communication disorders observed in adults are bilingual speech and language disorders: bilingual aphasias, bilingual dementias, bilingual stuttering, etc. This book was written with the specific purpose of filling this gap. The major purpose of this book has been to integrate the state of the art on the different aspects of the communication disorders observed in adult bilinguals. The book is organised in such a way that an integrated perspective of bilingualism is presented: from the normal conditions to the pathology; from the clinical descriptions to the rehabilitation issues; from the biological factors to the cultural variables.

Author : Kenneth Hyltenstam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521359986

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Bilingualism Across the Lifespan examines the dynamics of bilingual language processing over time from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This multidisciplinary approach is fundamental to an understanding of how the bilingual's two (or more) language systems interact with each other and with other higher cognitive systems, neurological substrates, and social systems - a central theme of this volume. Contributors examine the nature of bilingualism during various phases of the lifecycle - childhood, adulthood, and old age - and in various health/pathology conditions. Topics range from code separation in the young bilingual child, across various types of language pathologies in adult bilinguals, to language choice problems in dementia. The volume thus offers a broad overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of bilingualism. It will interest and stimulate researchers and graduate students in the fields of linguistics, neuropsychology, and developmental psychology, as well as in foreign language teaching, speech pathology, educational psychology, and special education.

Author : Todd C. Handy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
ISBN : 9780262083331

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The first comprehensive handbook to detail ERP methodology, covering experimental design, data analysis, and special applications.

Author : Yves Joanette
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461232627

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Nonspecialists are often surprised by the issues studied and the perspectives assumed by basic scientific researchers. Nowhere has the surprise traditionally been greater than in the field of psychology. College students anticipate that their psychology courses will illuminate their personal problems and their friends' per sonalities; they are nonplussed to discover that the perception of geometric forms and the running ofT-mazes dominates the textbooks. The situation is comparable in the domain of linguistics. Nonprofessional observers assume that linguists study exotic languages, that when they choose to focus on their own language, they will examine the meanings of utterances and the uses to which language is put. Such onlookers are taken aback to learn that the learning of remote languages is a marginal activity for most linguists; they are equally amazed to discover that the lion's share of work in the discipline focuses on issues of syntax and phonol ogy, which are virtually invisible to the speaker of a language. Science moves in its own, often mysterious ways, and there are perfectly good reasons why experimental psychologists prefer to look at mazes rather than at madness, and why linguists study syntax rather than Sanskrit. Nonetheless, it is a happy event for all concerned when the interests of professionals and non specialists begin to move toward one another and a field of study comes to address the "big questions" as well as the experimentally most tractable ones. Discourse Ability and Brain Damage reflects this trend in scientific research.

Author : Spyridoula Cheimariou
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Language and languages
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I demonstrated that the eye-movement record is influenced by linguistic factors, which produce greater predictability effects as linguistic experience advances, and cognitive factors, which produce smaller predictability effects as they decline. Similarly, the N400, an ERP response that is modulated by a word's predictability, was also moderated by cognitive factors. Most importantly, older adults were able to use context efficiently to facilitate upcoming words in the ERP study, contrary to younger adults. Further, I provide initial evidence that coherence analysis may be used as a measure of cognitive effort to illustrate the facilitation that prediction confers to language comprehenders. The results indicate that for a comprehensive account of predictive processing research needs to take into account the role of experience acquired through lifetime and the declines that aging brings.

Author : Roberto Heredia
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080500099

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Bilingual Sentence Processing