The status of ‘canonical SVO sentences’ in French: a developmental study of the on-line processing of dislocated sentences

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnès Charvillat ◽  
Michèle Kail
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Order Processing ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
French Word ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
Per Se

ABSTRACTThis on-line study investigates the processing of word order by 30 French children (6;6, 8;6, 10;6) and 10 adults. Its main objective is to show that the privileged status granted to ‘canonical SVO sentences’ is inadequate to account for the on-line processing of pronominal utterances in spoken French. Using a word monitoring task, we showed that word order (NVN vs NNV): (1) is a significant factor in sentences containing no clitic pronoun; (2) stops being significant when sentences contain either one or two clitic pronouns. These results suggest that processing complexity depends upon co-reference (‘linear’, ‘crossed’ or ‘embedding’) assignment constraints rather than upon word order per se. We conclude that, in French, word-order processing always interacts with acceptability considerations provided by cliticization.

scholarly journals Standardization in biobanking – between cooperation and competition

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Meinung ◽  
Dunja Martin ◽  
Uwe Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Conformity Assessment ◽  
International Context ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
The Status ◽  
Performance Monitor ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Assessment Standard ◽  
A Performance

Abstract This article presents the current situation of German biobanks and shows future fields of action in the European and international context on the basis of upcoming legal and normative challenges. It gives an overview of the development of the international biobank standard ISO 20387 and the commitment of German biobank experts in the ISO committee TC276. Less attention than the biobank standard per se has so far been paid to the basic mechanisms by which standards are developed and the potential of their application and accreditation. In this sense, this article deals with the motivation for active participation in standardization projects. We discuss the status of ISO 20387 as a conformity assessment standard and the consequence of accreditation as a performance monitor.

Case morphology and word order in second language Turkish: Evidence from Greek learners

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despina Papadopoulou ◽  
Spyridoula Varlokosta ◽  
Vassilios Spyropoulos ◽  
Hasan Kaili ◽  
Sophia Prokou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
First Language ◽  
Matching Task ◽  
L2 Acquisition ◽  
Case Morphology ◽  
L2 Development ◽  
Order Constraints ◽  
On Line

The optional use of morphology attested in second language learners has been attributed either to a representational deficit or to a ‘surface’ problem with respect to the realization of inflectional affixes. In this article we contribute to this issue by providing empirical data from the early interlanguage of Greek learners of Turkish. Three experiments have been conducted, a cloze task, a sentence picture matching task and an on-line grammaticality judgement task, in order to investigate case morphology and its interaction with word order constraints. The findings of all three experiments point towards a variable use of case morphology, which is also observed in previous studies of Turkish as a second language (L2). Moreover, they show clearly that the learners face difficulties with non-canonical word orders as well as with the interaction of word order constraints and Case. On the other hand, the learners performed well on verbal inflections. On the basis of these findings, we argue that the developmental patterns in the early stages of L2 acquisition cannot be attributed to a global lack of functional categories but rather to more localized difficulties, which seem to be related to (a) whether the features in the L2 are grammaticalized in the first language and (b) the way these features are encoded in the morphosyntax of the first language. Moreover, we claim that processing factors and the specific properties of the morphological paradigms affect L2 development.

Sentence processing in language-impaired children under conditions of filtering and time compression

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Stark ◽  
James W. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Processing ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Language Impaired ◽  
Monitoring Task ◽  
Time Compression ◽  
Lower Accuracy ◽  
On Line ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Monitoring Performance

ABSTRACTNineteen language-impaired (LI) and 20 language-normal (LN) children participated in an on-line word-monitoring task. Words were presented in lists and in sentences readily comprehended by younger children. The sentences were unaltered, tow-pass filtered, and time- compressed. Both groups had shorter mean response times (MRTs), but lower accuracy, for words in sentences than words in lists. The LI children had significantly longer MRTs under sentence conditions and lower accuracy overall than the LN children. Filtering had an adverse effect upon accuracy and MRT for both subject groups. Time compression did not, suggesting that the reduction in high-frequency information and the rate of presentation exert different effects. Subject differences in attention, as well as in linguistic competence and motor control, may have influenced word-monitoring performance.

Uses of content analysis in economic sciences: An overview of the current situation and prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
A. N. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Economic Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Creation

The article discusses the status of quantitative and qualitative data in economic sciences, as well as methods for transforming data into information and knowledge. Particular attention is devoted to content analysis as a set of methods for aggregating, processing and analyzing qualitative data; its forms (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and uses by economists. Content analysis appears to be particularly suitable for non-orthodox economists because of their refusal to consider price as the only source of economic information. The content analysis of metadata of articles indexed in Web of Science and eLibrary suggests that Russian economists still have insufficient familiarity with the principles of content analysis and their applications to research compared with their Western counterparts. It is argued that the creation of on-line platforms for content analysis and on-line banks of qualitative data may become a trigger for changing this situation.

Idiom as the intersection of conceptual and syntactic schemas

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL SANFORD
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Effects ◽  
Token Frequency ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Idiomatic Expressions ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Idiomatic Meaning

abstractTwo key issues in the study of idiom are the metaphorical status of idioms (whether or not underlying metaphors are active in the on-line processing of figurative idiomatic expressions) and the compositional status of idioms (whether or not the overall meaning of such expressions is analyzable from internal elements). This study addresses these questions from the perspective of emergent metaphor theory (Sanford, 2012, 2013), arguing that key properties of such expressions − idiosyncrasy of both form and meaning, the potential for idiom to be manipulated in discourse, and diachronic patterns in changes of idiomatic meaning − follow from the status of metaphorical idioms as highly entrenched instances of both conceptual and syntactic mappings. In the case of both types of schema, the interaction of type and token frequency effects predict the metaphoricity and analyzability of idioms.

scholarly journals Collaborative Learning and Co-Author Students in Online Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 440-456
Author(s):  
Ana Nobre ◽  
Vasco Nobre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
On Line ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Individual Dimension

The technologies themselves cannot be analyzed as instruments per se, nor can they be exhausted in their relation with science. There is a social and even an individual dimension that affects our own way of relating to society. It is in open education that we have been developing our educational practices. This chapter presents a collaborative learning activity, the curricular unit Materiais e Recursos para eLearning, part of an on-line Master in Pedagogy of eLearning, Universidade Aberta, Portugal. In the present work, the authors dedicate their attention to co-learning and co-research, as processes that help to exemplify some situations, the a-REAeduca. The data collection was supported essentially by the content analysis technique.

scholarly journals Redacción hipertextual en el periodismo digital universitario: ACN, Escenario, Directo Bogotá y Papiro

POLIANTEA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mireya Barón Pulido
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
On Line ◽  
Per Se ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Competencias Profesionales

Periodismo electrónico, Periodismo on-line, Periodismo digital son algunas de las acepciones más comunes al referirse al ejercicio de la escritura periodística que usa la internet. Al revisar el contexto social en los procesos en los que emer- gen las dinámicas de la comunicación es necesario recordar el paso de la sociedad industrial a la sociedad informacional1; aquella en donde la información se convierte per sé en generadora y dinamizadora de sus niveles de productividad y de poder. Resulta oportuno revisar estas relaciones en los países de América Latina, partiendo de los sistemas de economía agraria y/o acceso-sencillez-proximidad a la información a través de internet. Conscientes de que este proceso mediático supera el hecho de montar una simple infraestructura, se trata de constatar las dinámicas que caracterizan a nuestros sistemas educativos, sistemas de las nuevas tecnologías y ciencia, contenidos para la ciudadanía y contexto administrativo de dicho bagaje informacional. Es hora de revisar el comportamiento e incursión de esa praxis en el ámbito universitario, toda vez que se convierte en el escena- rio potenciador de la formación en competencias profesionales del periodista del siglo XXI en la región. El actual artículo recoge los resultados de la investigación cua- litativa realizada en cuatro periódicos on-line de las facultades de Comunicación Social en Bogotá. Se pretende evidenciar el comportamiento de tres elemen- tos neurálgicos en la redacción del periodismo on-lineuniver- sitario: niveles de hipertextualidad, de multimedialidad y de interactividad. Lectura detallada, captura de la estructura de pantalla principal de los artículos en cada periódico digital y cotejo con las sesiones de los cuatro respectivos grupos focales emisores, hacen parte de la metodología utilizada para ver las característi- cas de la narrativa ciberperiodística en mención. Esta fase inicial permitirá determinarar el comportamiento de un ciberperiodismo forjado desde la academia con miras a alimentar una segunda investigación2: Análisis de Contenido -AC – haciendo uso del software Qualrus con el propósito de constatar la sintaxis digital que estructuran los hiperdocumentos en la línea periodística de estos ciberproductos. Este recorrido investigativo permitirá argumentar la existencia y relaciones entre los niveles de multimedialidad e interactividad que dinamizan la tendencia de la narrativa hipertextual en el periodismo on-line universitario.

Language background affects online word order processing in a second language but not offline

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 802-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNIKA ANDERSSON ◽  
SUSAN SAYEHLI ◽  
MARIANNE GULLBERG
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Word Order ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Order Processing ◽  
Online Processing ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Crosslinguistic Influence

This study examines possible crosslinguistic influence on basic word order processing in a second language (L2). Targeting Swedish V2 word order we investigate adult German learners (+V2 in the L1) and English learners (-V2 in the L1) of Swedish who are matched for proficiency. We report results from two offline behavioural tasks (written production, metalinguistic judgements), and online processing as measured by event-related potentials (ERPs). All groups showed sensitivity to word order violations behaviourally and neurocognitively. Behaviourally, the learners differed from the native speakers only on judgements. Crucially, they did not differ from each other. Neurocognitively, all groups showed a similar increased centro-parietal P600 ERP-effect, but German learners (+V2) displayed more nativelike anterior ERP-effects than English learners (-V2). The results suggest crosslinguistic influence in that the presence of a similar word order in the L1 can facilitate online processing in an L2 – even if no offline behavioural effects are discerned.

On the Structure of the French DP

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Valois
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Functional Structure ◽  
The Status ◽  
French And English ◽  
Rightward Movement ◽  
Peculiar Case

AbstractThis paper discusses and expands upon various ideas concerning the structure of nominals in general (DPs) and of French nominals in particular, with the underlying idea that CP and DP have parallel argumental and functional structure. The main topics discussed are: (i) the projection of arguments in French and English; (ii) the parameterization of N-movement, which accounts for some word order differences between French and English; (iii) the distribution of adjectives in event nominals, which reflects that of adverbs in clauses in both French and English; (iv) a peculiar case of rightward movement out of DP that provides further evidence for N-movement as well as for the claim concerning the prohibition on right adjunction of genitive nominals within DP; and (v) extraction facts that are a consequence of the status of [Spec, DP] as an A′-position in French.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Police Government Microblog and Government Tik Tok

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainan Zhu ◽  
Xia Li
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Guidance And Control ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
Government Propaganda ◽  
Control Work ◽  
And Control ◽  
Chinese Police

Based on "government micro-blog" and "government tiktok" of Chinese Police Online, this paper collects data with the help of Octopus Collector and Python, then studies the status quo of Chinese police on-line through two new government media platforms: Weibo and Weibo public security organs to use new media to carry out government propaganda and public opinion guidance and control work.

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