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An investigation of the neuronal signature of word order effects in Russian
No full textLanguage comprehension proceeds by the activation of specific words (e.g. Kuperberg & Jaeger, 2016) and graded prediction of upcoming word features (Luke & Christianson, 2016; Stoops & Christianson, 2017; 2019
Neuronal oscillations as markers of semantic and morphosyntactic processing in a flexible word order language: native speakers, heritage language learners and second language learners
No full textSkilled readers engage in prediction of linguistic information at a level higher than individual lexical items (e.g. Luke & Christianson, 2016; Stoops & Christianson, 2017; 2019). Preceding context can induce semantic and syntactic expectations as reflected in the electrophysiology of neuronal oscillations (e.g. Frederici et al., 1996; Jackson et al., 2020; Kaan & Swab, 2003; Kuperberg, 2013; Qian et al., 2018). The goal of this project is to examine neuronal brain responses of native speakers, heritage language and second language learners of Russian evoked by syntactic and semantic violations controlling for the target word and preceding context length capitalizing on flexible word order of Russian, electrophysiological markers of which have been understudied
Comparison of Marivaux's "Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard" and Goldsmith's "She stoops to conquer"
No full textThesis (M.A.)--University of Wichita, Dept. of FrenchThe purpose of this thesis is to discover and correlate the various points of similarity and of differences
found in the study of 'Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard', by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, and 'She Stoops to
Conquer', by Oliver Goldsmith. The method of approach was suggested to the writer by her undergraduate work in the
department or French, where connections are constantly being formed with other subjects. An attempt is made to
point out how each author reflects his own life and contemporary environment in comedies of almost identical
plots, and to note the possibilities of direct influence of "Le Jeu de l' Aamour et du hasard' upon 'She Stoops to Conquer'
Morpho-syntactico-semantic parafoveal processing: Eye-tracking evidence from word n+1 and word n in Russian
No full textTwo experiments compared morpho-syntactico-semantic parafoveal processing of 5-letter-words n+1 (Experiment 1) with 5-letter-regions at the end of longer words n (Experiment 2), understudied cross-linguistically. Earlier boundary-change studies showed that subject/object case assignment in Russian can be extracted from a parafoveally presented but never directly fixated letter when the related preview is the most expected continuation (Stoops & Christianson, 2017; 2019). This study reversed the syntactic expectations for the identical and related previews (Cloze ratings: 94% grammatical identical object versus 0% ungrammatical related subject). The related preview was read more slowly than the no change preview in the later measures: go-past for the words n+1 and n, according to both frequentist and Bayesian analyses. Additionally, the study clarifies the augmented allocation of attention hypothesis - skilled readers process parafoveally visible parts of a longer word faster than length-controlled upcoming word n+1, yet the message-level contextual linguistic information affected the target words n and n+1 similarly. The most intriguing finding is the delayed morpho-syntactico-semantic effect: even though the morphologically ungrammatical marking was parafoveally available, the syntactic fit only affected delayed processing, manifested as increased reading of previous text. More cross-linguistic work is needed to understand the role of higher-level linguistic information beyond the predictability of individual lexical items on parafoveal processing during reading
Parafoveal preview during reading in Russian: native speakers and second language learners
No full textThe experiments in this dissertation investigated the influence of word order and attentional processes (between vs. within words) on the parafoveal processing during reading of inflectional morphology of nouns and verbs in Russian by native speakers and L2 learners via the boundary-change paradigm (Rayner, 1975) and it’s modified within-word version (Hyöna, Bertram, and Pollatsek, 2004). Syntactic position of the target word and allocation of attention on the target word affected the time-course of morphological processing in native speakers but not in L2 learners due to increased processing during all stages of word identifications: orthographic, lexical access, and post-lexical integration.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2012-11-19T19:01:21Z
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Book Review: JAMIE STOOPS. The Thorny Path: Pornography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. Pp. 312. $39.95 (cloth).
No full text[p.1]: "Jamie Stoops’s The Thorny Path is a fascinating and much-needed addition to scholarship on the social history of pornography and its regulation. As Stoops points out in her introduction, investigations of this history in the British context have largely focused on the nineteenth century. Little scholarship has addressed the practicalities of making, distributing, and consum- ing pornography in Britain during the interwar period or examined the extent to which author- ities attempted to regulate it within the country. Over six chapters, Stoops addresses these practicalities, outlining (1) the structures of pornography production, distribution, and con- sumption in Britain between 1900 and 1945; (2) the British pornography trade’s relation to producers and consumers in other countries; (3) the content of British pornography during this period; (4) the British press’s representation of the trade; (5) anti-vice societies’ role in policing pornography within and outside British borders; and (6) the British state’s approaches to policing pornography. Stoops employs a broad definition of “pornography,” covering material of varying degrees of explicitness and a variety of media, including film, pho- tography, published and unpublished literature, pulp magazines, and comics."</p
The role of text exposure on language comprehension
No full textAn accumulating evidence points to large individual differences in the adult speakers’ knowledge of complex and simple syntactic structures of their native language (e.g. Dabrowska, 2012; 2015; Hulstijn, 2015; Kidd, Donnelly, Christiansen 2017, for reviews). Such findings support experience or usage-based theories of language. Investigation of various factors that drive individual differences in language acquisition help us gain insight into the relationship between the language input, learner characteristics, and linguistic outcomes. This study investigates how prior literacy experiences modulate language processing across life span. We correlate participants' responses on the 3 off-line tasks: Author Recognition Test, Shipley Vocabulary Test, and Self-Perception Survey of Reading Enjoyment to their responses on the on-line whole sentence self-paced reading task. The reading task included 4 types of sentences that are known to vary in syntactically complexity, comprehension difficulty, and frequency in written vs. spoken texts: subject and object relative clauses, passive main clauses, and simple active sentences
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