language comprehension
Heuristics in Language Comprehension
... We used a sentence-picture matching task to demonstrate that heuristics can influence language comprehension. Interpretation of quantifier scope am- biguous sentences such as Every kid climbed a tree was ...
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A computerized test of speed of language comprehension unconfounded by literacy
... Taken together, the results of these three studies lead us to be confident that this computerised task is tapping the same language comprehension skills as the Silly Sentences task from the SCOLP battery, ...
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TACIT INTEGRATION AND REFERENTIAL STRUCTURE IN THE LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION OF APHASICS AND NORMALS
... normal comprehension skills for a fine-level exploration of the interpretive ...good comprehension skills of mildly impaired aphasics may thus turn out to be relatively good coarse-grained approximate ...
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The Role of Executive Functions in Language Comprehension in Preschool Children
... of language comprehension because the mechanisms needed to resolve this task are similar to the mechanisms and networks involved in a lan- guage comprehension task—one needs to comprehend linguistic ...
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Effect of English Language Comprehension on Achievement in Engineering Mathematics
... English language comprehension and achievement in ...English language comprehension and performance in non worded problems in engineering ...English language comprehension has no ...
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The Role of Cognitive Control in Language Comprehension
... A fitting demonstration of the process of revising a misinterpretation during language comprehension is seen in a study by Knoll, Obleser, Schipke, Friederici, and Braurer (2012). In this study, the authors ...
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Syntactic Adaptation in Language Comprehension
... human language comprehension and production are ...ing language comprehension, language users ex- ploit probabilistic information in the linguistic sig- nal to make inferences about the ...
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The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome
... introduction, such understanding is but one necessary part of real-world metaphor comprehension. Another is to interpret the intention of the speaker, recognizing that a statement is not intended literally. In a ...
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Quantity, Contrast, and Convention in Cross Situated Language Comprehension
... the language describing a par- ticular object in a scene as an expression of an it- erative process, where the speaker is attempting to guide the listener towards the referent in a way that avoids both ambiguity ...
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A Comparison of Language Comprehension of Children with Hearing Loss and Their Typical Peers
... group mean difference for CI and BTE was statistically not significant. A point to be noted is that all subjects of the three groups have been drawn from English medium schools in an attempt to ensure a similar exposure ...
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Assessing Learners Cognitive Techniques in Language Comprehension Texts
... in language testing and measurement driven reform in the areas of general educational ...in language testing courses for teachers as a powerful concept that all test designers need to strongly consider, and ...
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Computational structure of generative phonology and its relation to language comprehension
... Although the generation problem is now certaiuly decidable, the recognition problem remains undecidable, because the dictionary and syntax are both potentially infinite sources of bounda[r] ...
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Discourse Models and Language Comprehension
... uhere an utterance s meaning may depend upon who the speaker is,.. are, what the Durpose of the conversation is, and so o n.[r] ...
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Natural Language Comprehension with the EpiReader
... EpiReader borrows ideas from other models as well. The Reasoner’s convolutional architecture is based on Severyn and Moschitti (2016) and Blunsom et al. (2014). Our use of word-level matching was in- spired by the ...
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Assent and Compliance in Children’s Language Comprehension
... Nelson Ed,, Language development.[r] ...
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The Impact of First Language Intonational Clue Selection on Second Language Comprehension
... Fiction and non-fiction passages were used to investigate if patterns existed between imaginary information and facts. Non- fiction is literature that is not fictional (Mish, 2005). However, nonfiction has a different ...
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Reading comprehension in developmental disorders of language and communication
... oral language comprehension ...oral language skill. The notion that both word recognition and oral language comprehension contribute to reading is embodied by the Simple View of Reading ...
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Cognitive processing of second language idiom comprehension: A comparative study
... Metaphorical language is more difficult to understand than literal speech because metaphorical language is patterned and related to a literal sense; thus, idiom comprehension requires a different ...
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The comparative effect of language used in recall protocol in reading comprehension
... reading comprehension research because it reveals the reader’s real-time cognitive processes and does not heavily depend on the reader’s ...and comprehension process of long and complex ...
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Elaborative feedback to enhance online second language reading comprehension
... reading comprehension exercise was developed for online delivery and was based on the same text used in the ...reading comprehension exercise was written to focus on comprehension of the same part of ...
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