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Clapp, Amanda Louise. "Investigating cognitive control in language switching." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14106.

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How do bi/multilinguals switch between languages so effectively that there is no obvious intrusion from the alternatives? One can examine this by comparing language selection with task selection, or language switching with task switching. This is the approach adopted in the first of two strands of research presented in this thesis. In task switching, providing advance warning of the task typically leads to a reduction in the performance ‘switch cost’, suggesting top-down biasing of task selection. It is not clear whether the language switch cost also reduces with preparation, partly because th

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Alhanai, Tuka(Tuka Waddah Talib Ali Al Hanai). "Detecting cognitive impairment from spoken language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122724.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-165).<br>Dementia comes second only to spinal cord injuries in terms of its debilitating effects; from memory-loss to physical disability. The standard approach to evaluate cognitive conditions are neuropsychological exams, which are conducted via in-person interviews to measure memory, thinking, language, and motor skills. Work is on-going to determine biomarkers of cognitive impairment

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Snyder, William Brandon. "Language acquisition and language variation : the role of morphology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11130.

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Lin, Hui-Ju. "Bilingualism, feedback, cognitive capacity, and learning strategies in L3 development." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453905362/viewonline.

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VAN, CLEAVE MATTHEW JAMES. "THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186060901.

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Hu, Guiling. "Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Listening Comprehension." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/alesl_diss/11.

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This dissertation research investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying second language (L2) listening comprehension. I use three types of sentential contexts, congruent, neutral and incongruent, to look at how L2 learners construct meaning in spoken sentence comprehension. The three types of contexts differ in their context predictability. The last word in a congruent context is highly predictable (e.g., Children are more affected by the disease than adults), the last word in a neutral context is likely but not highly predictable (e.g., Children are more affected by the disease than nurse

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Mahowald, Kyle. "Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106435.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204).<br>Why do languages have the words they do instead of some other set of words? In the first part of this thesis, I argue that cognitive and communicative demands strongly influence the structure of the lexicons of natural languages. It is known that words in natural language are distributed such that shorter words are more frequent and occur after more predictive contexts. I provide evidence tha

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Nácar, García Loreto 1988. "Language acquisition in bilingual infants : Early language discrimination in the auditory and visual domains." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/511361.

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Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the necessity of the latter to discriminate between two language systems since very early in life. To be able to learn two different languages, bilingual infants will have to perceive the regularities of each of their two languages while keeping them separated. In this thesis we explore the differences between monolingual and bilingual infants in their early language discrimination abilities as well as

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Slama, Hichem. "Task-goal switching: Influences of time, language, alertness and expertise." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/229285.

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Almost 100 years ago, Jersild (1927) published his article “Mental Set and Shift”. He borrowed this title from a book of Hollingworth and Poffenberger (1919), according to whom “shifting back and forth from one mental set, one attitude or one task to another, is a relatively ineffective mode of work.” As pointed out by Jersild, the cost of switching between activities or mental sets is, for instance, the reason for Taylor’s model of industrialization and the trend in industry toward specialization. Through specialization, the element of switch is reduced to its minimum because “the cost of shi

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Ecke, Peter 1964. "Cross-language studies of lexical retrieval: Tip-of-the-tongue states in first and foreign languages." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282099.

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This dissertation investigates "tip-of-the-tongue" states (TOTs) in native speakers of English, Russian, and Spanish, studying foreign languages, and in fluent Spanish-English bilinguals. Study (1) explored retrospective reports of subjects' every-day experiences with TOTs. Study (2) investigated TOTs (fragmentary information, associated words, resolution type) that were recorded in structured diaries over a four-week period. Experimental study (3) examined TOTs elicited through definition and translation primes in Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S., and speakers of Spanish in Mexico. Stud

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Lavalle, Terron Gabriel Armando. "On a Multipropositionalist Approach to Modal and Cognitive Contents in Language." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, EHESS, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024EHES0064.

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Cette thèse explore une approche multipropositionnelle du langage et son application à divers phénomènes linguistiques. Ici, je motive une extension de la théorie réflexive-référentielle de John Perry pour couvrir les énoncés de phrases simples et complexes. J’argumente que ce cadre offre une compréhension plus profonde des contenus modaux et cognitifs ainsi que de leur interaction. Tout d’abord, j’introduis la théorie en soulignant sa base multipropositionnaliste. J’applique ensuite l’analyse aux phrases simples pour résoudre les problèmes de signification cognitive et les violations apparent

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Pallotta, Vincenzo. "Cognitive language engineering towards robust human-computer interaction /." Lausanne, 2002. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?display=detail&nr=2630.

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Hong, Namkyung. "Language-specificity and young preschoolers' social-cognitive development." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2017. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/85189/.

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This thesis investigated the role of linguistic access in reference to mental states in children’s social understanding. The importance of access to, or an understanding of, mentalistic language has been stressed regarding the development of children’s social understanding (e.g., Astington & Baird, 2005). It was predicted that the exposure to the mental-state terms using specific grammatically embedded forms specifying certainty and/or the origins of information would enhance Korean children’s social understanding. There has been a vast body of research, showing the predictive role of executiv

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McGlashan, G. Scott. "Towards a cognitive linguistic approach to language comprehension." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20006.

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This thesis develops a cognitive linguistic approach to language comprehension. The cognitive approach differs from traditional linguistic approaches in that linguistic description is seen as an integral part of the description of cognition, and that the object of description is the nature of conceptual structures, the processes which relate these conceptual structures, and the effect of context upon these processes. As a cognitive description within cognitive science, a computational approach is adopted: language comprehension is described in terms of two modules, a linguistic processing modu

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Dechter, Eyal. "Using the language of thought." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120620.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129).<br>In this thesis, I develop and explore two novel models of how humans might be able to acquire high-level conceputal knowledge by performing probabilistic inference over a language of thought (Fodor 1975) - a space of symbolic and compositional mental representations sufficiently expressive to capture the meanings of human thoughts and utterances. These models and their associated learning alg

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Broihier, Kevin J. (Kevin John). "Case studies in language learnability." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10617.

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Bloom, Paul 1963. "Semantic structure and language development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13686.

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O'Bryan, Erin Leigh. "Event structure in language comprehension." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289983.

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This dissertation presents and evaluates the hypothesis that event structure information such as telicity is used during language comprehension. A verb or verb phrase is telic if it denotes an event that necessarily progresses towards an endpoint. The major experimental finding presented in this dissertation is that garden pathing is less severe in reduced relative clause sentences with telic embedded verbs than in those with atelic embedded verbs. For example, in the structurally ambiguous sentence 'The actress awakened/sketched by the writer left in a hurry', less comprehension difficulty oc

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Vanijdee, Alisa. "Language learning strategy use, interaction with self-instructional materials, and learner autonomy of Thai distance language learners." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365377.

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Lowry, Mark D. "Evaluating Theories of Bilingual Language Control Using Computational Models." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7852.

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Bilingual language control refers to how bilinguals are able to speak exclusively in one language without the unintended language intruding. Two prominent verbal theories of bilingual language control have been proposed by researchers: the inhibitory control model (ICM) and the lexical selection mechanism model (LSM). The ICM posits that domain-general inhibition is employed in order to suppress the unintended language’s activation. The LSM posits that inhibition is not used; rather a lexical selection mechanism targets only the intended language’s words. In order to better test the theories’

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Libben, Maya. "The role of context in bilingual language processing." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86797.

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This thesis investigates the linguistic factors that mediate lexical access in bilinguals. A fundamental question regarding bilingualism is whether the bilingual lexicon has a language-specific organization (having independent or modular memory stores for each known language) or a language-non-specific organization (having an integrated memory store containing all known words in both languages). Previous studies have largely demonstrated that bilinguals simultaneously access representations from both languages during comprehension, thus adhering to the non-selective activation approach. How

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Raphalalani, Matodzi Rebecca. "Basic emotions in Tshivenda : a cognitive semantic analysis." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/238.

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Futrell, Richard Landy Jones. "Memory and locality in natural language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114075.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211).<br>I explore the hypothesis that the universal properties of human languages can be explained in terms of efficient communication given fixed human information processing constraints. I argue that under short-term memory constraints, optimal languages should exhibit information locality: words that depend on each other, both in their interpretation and in their statistical d

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Ionin, Tania. "Article semantics in second language acquisition." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7963.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318).<br>This thesis examines article choice and parameter-setting in second language (L2) acquisition. It argues, on the basis of L2-English elicitation and production data, that L2- learners have access to UG-based semantic distinctions governing article choice, but do not know which distinction is appropriate for English. A Fluctuation Hypothesis (FH) is proposed, according to which L2-learners fluctuate between different parameter settings unti

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Piantadosi, Steven Thomas. "Learning and the language of thought." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68423.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191).<br>This thesis develops the hypothesis that key aspects of learning and development can be understood as rational statistical inferences over a compositionally structured representation system, a language of thought (LOT) (Fodor, 1975). In this setup, learners have access to a set of primitive functions and learning consists of composing these functions in order to created structured representations of

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Shi, Enchao. "Second language grammar and secondary predication." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289919.

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This study aims to formulate a theory of L2 grammar adequate enough to account for the final L2 state. We argued that L 2 I-language was free of L1 properties, the basis of the CHL2 Uniformity Hypothesis (CUH), and that L1-related performance data were effects of the Relativized Transfer Condition (RTC), constituting the L2 performance systems. The English resultatives (Mary painted the house red), available in Mandarin and depictives (John ate the meat raw), unavailable in Mandarin, were used to examine the hypotheses. Nineteen Mandarin speakers of English and nineteen native speakers of Engl

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Li, Suogui. "A cognitive approach to foreign-inspired Chinese terms." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/26322.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.<br>A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Humanities and Languages in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Kuperberg, Gina Rosalind. "The cognitive neuroscience of language processing : towards an understanding of language dysfunction in schizophrenia." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272382.

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Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna. "Perceptual and cognitive processing limitations in specific language impairment." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0a3c8903-a93a-4473-9fc5-fe1ef87656c9.

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The experiments presented in this thesis explored the possibility that an underlying cause of specific language impairment (SLI) may be a deficit in perceptual or cognitive information processing. The first three studies tested the hypothesis that children with SLI have impaired perception of the dynamic elements of visual and auditory stimuli, as proposed in the magnocellular hypothesis for developmental dyslexia. The experimental predictions were that a) children with SLI would have poor sensitivity to coherent motion (but not coherent form) stimuli relative to chronological-age matched cont

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Gomes, Marc Andrew. "Cognitive science approaches to actor training| Interrogating conceptual language." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10255101.

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<p> This thesis explores the ways in which the fields of neurobiology and cognitive science impact concepts of performer processes, and how the findings of this research can help actors and actor trainers to examine assumptions that inform how they frame and describe performer practices. Cognitive science research provides a precise understanding of the embodied processes of “self”, “consciousness”, “emotion” and “perceiving”, and I argue that it is productive to interrogate these terms as they pertain to descriptions of the actor’s practic

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Janjua, Fatima. "Language and cognitive development in very young deaf children." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/68cb555b-3d31-49da-be84-e71d5b01bcd5.

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Reichgelt, Han. "Reference and quantification in the cognitive view of language." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20138.

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Alasmari, Abdullah. "Language switching and cognitive control in Arabic-English bilinguals." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702434.

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Language control studies generally and specifically on bilingualism has been studied by many researchers in different disciplines and on many languages. Although Cattell started the psychological research on bilingualism as early as 1887, there are really scarce studies that have exclusively investigated the language control on Arabic bilinguals. This thesis examines two important aspects of bilingual language control: language switching and word translation, which are two situations where bilinguals must be able to "release" inhibition applied to a previously used language. It reports nine ex

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Powell, Deborah Sue. "Increasing cognitive functioning in science for English language learners." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3024.

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Shimono, Torrin Robert. "The Dynamic Cognitive Processes of Second Language Reading Fluency." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/586672.

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Teaching & Learning<br>Ph.D.<br>Second language (L2) reading fluency has not received sufficient attention in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics, especially regarding the types of treatments that promote reading fluency (Grabe, 2009). Hence, this study was a longitudinal, quasi-experimental investigation of the effects of timed reading, repeated oral reading, and extensive reading on the development of reading fluency among Japanese university students. The eight purposes of this study were to: (a) better understand how timed reading, repeated oral reading,

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Moxley-Paquette, Elizabeth Ann. "Testing a Structural Equation Model of Language-based Cognitive Fitness." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1545.

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The normative development of language is often taken for granted, yet problems with language development can result in stress for the individual and family. A challenge with these language development problems lies within the contemporary education system, which assumes that children have appropriate skills when they begin school. The purpose of the study was to test a theoretical model of language readiness known as language-based cognitive fitness, which includes measures associated with structural concepts of language involving receptive language, expressive language, spontaneous narrative

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Polzenhagen, Frank. "Cultural conceptualisations in West African English : a cognitive-linguistic approach /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016163259&line_number=0004&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Lindes, Peter. "OntoSoar: Using Language to Find Genealogy Facts." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4133.

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There is a need to have an automated system that can read family history books or other historical texts and extract as many genealogy facts as possible from them. Embley and others have applied traditional information extraction techniques to this problem in a system called OntoES with a reasonable amount of success. In parallel much linguistic theory has been developed in the past decades, and Lonsdale and others have built computational embodiments of some of these theories using Soar. In this thesis we introduce a system called OntoSoar which combines the Link Grammar Parser using a gramma

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Davy, Belinda. "A cognitive-semantic approach to the acquisition of English prepositions /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9998029.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-296). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9998029.

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Warshaw, Mark. "The cognitive challenge to the truth conditional theory of meaning /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170238.

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Watson, Duane G. (Duane Girard) 1976. "Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32240.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-150).<br>The work presented in this thesis was conducted with two aims in mind. The first was to understand where speakers prefer to place intonational boundaries in language production. The second was to understand where listeners prefer to hear boundaries in language comprehension.<br>by Duane G. Watson.<br>Ph.D.

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Perfors, Amy (Amy Francesca). "Learnability, representation, and language : a Bayesian approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45601.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2008.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243).<br>Within the metaphor of the "mind as a computation device" that dominates cognitive science, understanding human cognition means understanding learnability not only what (and how) the brain learns, but also what data is available to it from the world. Ideal learnability arguments seek to chara

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Hayes, Rachel L. "How are second language phoneme contrasts learned." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289939.

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Listeners are sensitive to phonetic differences that correspond to phonemic contrasts in their native language, and they often exhibit difficulty discriminating sounds that are not contrastive in their native language. Although a large literature shows that learners can improve their perception of novel contrasts with exposure to a second language, there is still little understanding of how learners accomplish this. There are at least two possible sources of evidence that learners might use to acquire sensitivity to novel sound contrasts. First, learners might use their knowledge of minimal pa

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Caissie, Roland. "English verb phrase grammar prototypes for speakers of other languages : a cognitive approach to facilitate second language English composition /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9351.

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Kirk, Neil W. "When do dialects become languages? : a cognitive perspective." Thesis, Abertay University, 2016. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/4a0ecc3d-25f3-4cf4-81b0-f71d7702ec0e.

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Several definitions exist that offer to identify the boundaries between languages and dialects, yet these distinctions are inconsistent and are often as political as they are linguistic (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998). A different perspective is offered in this thesis, by investigating how closely related linguistic varieties are represented in the brain and whether they engender similar cognitive effects as is often reported for bilingual speakers of recognised independent languages, based on the principles of Green’s (1998) model of bilingual language control. Study 1 investigated whether bidial

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Mercier, Julie. "The role of inhibitory control in bilingual spoken language processing." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116916.

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This thesis investigates the relation between bilingual spoken language comprehension and domain-general inhibitory control. There are potentially two ways in which inhibitory control may support bilingual spoken language processing. First, inhibitory control may help suppress specific word competitors activated in the course of lexical competition (e.g., "feet" or "fille", girl in French, given the target word "field"). Second, inhibitory control may support the global suppression of a non-target language such that bilinguals can focus on a particular language. Thus, in three studies, we exam

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Wang, Fu-Chuan. "An integration of cognitive academic language proficiency and content-based instruction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2297.

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Ferdinand, Vanessa Anne. "Inductive evolution : cognition, culture, and regularity in language." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11741.

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Cultural artifacts, such as language, survive and replicate by passing from mind to mind. Cultural evolution always proceeds by an inductive process, where behaviors are never directly copied, but reverse engineered by the cognitive mechanisms involved in learning and production. I will refer to this type of evolutionary change as inductive evolution and explain how this represents a broader class of evolutionary processes that can include both neutral and selective evolution. This thesis takes a mechanistic approach to understanding the forces of evolution underlying change in culture over ti

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Briscoe, Josephine Mary. "Cognitive development after preterm birth." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266900.

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Warren, Deborah Kay. "Nonlinguistic Cognitive Performance and Expressive and Receptive Language Scores in Children with Expressive Language Delay." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4884.

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This study was part of the Portland Language Development Project. The purpose was to establish reliability for the Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test. Additionally, nonlinguistic cognitive performance scores were correlated with soores from expressive and receptive language test soores. Finally, scores of overall cognitive function and of nonlinguistic cognitive function in children with normally developing language (NL) and with expressive language delay (ELD) were compared. The original group size was 60 children, 30 with ELD at the age of 20 months, and 30 who were a matched control group. These su

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