Psychology of Language and Communication

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YOUNG CHILDREN'S DETECTION AND DECODING OF IRONIC INTONATION

Catherine Rattray, Andrew Tolmie

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 1 > 29-54

Two studies examined 3- and 4-year-olds' ability to follow the mental 'sub-text' of conversations employing ironic intonation. In Study 1, children were asked what a confederate thought was inside a tin, following an exchange in which she saw (joke conditions) or did not see (lie conditions) the contents (a stone) and heard these referred to in neutral or ironic tone as a cake. Study 2 repeated the...

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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSION OF IRONIC UTTERANCES IN 3- TO 9-YEAR-OLD FINNISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN

Soile Loukusa, Eeva Leinonen

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 1 > 55-69

This study explores the comprehension of simple ironic utterances in 210 Finnish children aged from 3 to 9 years. If the child answered the question correctly, he/she was asked to explain correct answers. The results indicated that there was large individual variation within age groups both in answers and explanations. In terms of correct answers there was a significant difference between 6- and 7-year-olds...

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WORKING MEMORY IN ADHD CHILDREN

Aneta R. Borkowska, Ewa Zawadzka

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 1 > 71-84

According to neuropsychological models of ADHD, deficits of working memory are regarded as an essential cognitive phenotype for the disorder (Barkley, 1997; Castellanos & Tannock, 2002; Martinussen & Tannock, 2006). The primary goal of the present study was to compare the functioning of the phonological loop and the central executive system in the situation of manipulation of verbal material...

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METAPHORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOME NOTIONS IN DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: IS 'PLEASURE' AN INSIPID MILKY JELLY?

Marlena Bartczak

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 1 > 85-102

The study concerned the process of metaphor creation in a group of depressive and of non-depressive people. It was assumed that due to some deficits in working memory and inhibition processes, depressive people would have difficulties with metaphorical processing and would produce fewer metaphors than do healthy individuals. It was also presumed that subjects with depression as compared to non-depressive...

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EARLY BILINGUALISM: CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS IN AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CHILDCARE CENTER

Roma Chumak-Horbatsch

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 1 > 3-27

In this study, language views and home language practice of sixteen immigrant parents were documented and related to the dual language behaviors of their young children (ages 1:09 to 3;06) who were enrolled in a Toronto English-language childcare center. De Houwer's (1999) model of early bilingualism was applied to the minority language context and external factors were used to explain the short-lived...

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ACQUISITION OF WORD-FORMATION CATEGORIES BY CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS

Ewa Muzyka

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 2 > 45-67

The article describes the competence of children with hearing loss in comprehending and producing derivational (word-formation constructions) belonging to various categories. The skills of children with hearing loss are compared with the skills of hearing children. The extensive field of observation - the object of study were all word-formation categories (productive in contemporary Polish) - caused...

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COGNITIVE AND LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTION IN LIQUID MEDIUM: 'AQUA-MOTION' VERBS IN TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Hanna Batoreo

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 2 > 3-15

In the present paper the author surveys the verbs speakers use most frequently to encode the movement of a non-liquid Figure in or on a liquid Ground ('AQUA-motion' verbs). His main data come from European Portuguese (EP) (cf. Batoréo, 2007, in press; Batoréo et al., 2007; Casadinho, 2007), and results are mainly based on non-elicited data from electronically available language corpora of native EP...

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PROCESSING NEGATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ADJECTIVAL ANTONYMY

Jozef Maciuszek

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 2 > 17-43

In a series of experimental studies the author deals with processing negation in adjectives, with recognition of their affective value. For the studied material he choses adjectives describing people in categories of positive and negative characters. He used linguistic and extralinguistic negation (known also as external negation) to study the difficulty (measured in time of categorizing and number...

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LEXICAL SKILLS IN ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF DIALOGUE UTTERANCES)

Aneta Domagala

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 2 > 89-105

The paper discusses the lexical skills of adults with Alzheimer's dementia, assessed on the material of dialogue utterances. The paper presents a proposal for a way of describing lexical disorders in dementia and illustrates the problems commonly occurring in this group of patients. The linguistic analysis covered 1000 pages of transcripts of conversations with patients with moderate and severe intensity...

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INTERACTIONS OF DEAF PRESCHOOLERS: A COMPARISON OF THE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIORS OF DEAF CHILDREN OF DEAF PARENTS AND OF DEAF CHILDREN OF HEARING PARENTS

PIotr Tomaszewski

Psychology of Language and Communication > 2008 > 12 > 2 > 69-87

This exploratory study examined the communicative behaviors of deaf children of deaf parents (DCDP) and of hearing parents (DCHP) by observing child-child dyads in free-play situations. DCDP-DCDP pairs were compared with DCHP-DCHP pairs. Dyadic peer interactions were recorded on videotape. The finding indicated that there were no differences between DCDP and DCHP connected with communicative competence...

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Psychology of Language and Communication

YOUNG CHILDREN'S DETECTION AND DECODING OF IRONIC INTONATION

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSION OF IRONIC UTTERANCES IN 3- TO 9-YEAR-OLD FINNISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN

WORKING MEMORY IN ADHD CHILDREN

METAPHORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOME NOTIONS IN DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: IS 'PLEASURE' AN INSIPID MILKY JELLY?

EARLY BILINGUALISM: CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS IN AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE CHILDCARE CENTER

ACQUISITION OF WORD-FORMATION CATEGORIES BY CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS

COGNITIVE AND LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTION IN LIQUID MEDIUM: 'AQUA-MOTION' VERBS IN TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

PROCESSING NEGATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ADJECTIVAL ANTONYMY

LEXICAL SKILLS IN ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF DIALOGUE UTTERANCES)

INTERACTIONS OF DEAF PRESCHOOLERS: A COMPARISON OF THE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIORS OF DEAF CHILDREN OF DEAF PARENTS AND OF DEAF CHILDREN OF HEARING PARENTS

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