This study considered a relation between rhythm perception skills and individual differences in phonological awareness and grammar abilities, which are two language skills crucial for academic achievement. Twenty-five typically developing 6-year-old children were given standardized assessments of rhythm perception, phonological awareness, morpho-syntactic competence, and non-verbal cognitive ab...

An important achievement in modeling online language comprehension is the discovery of the relationship between processing difficulty and surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008). However, it is not clear how structural uncertainty can be represented and updated in a continuoustime continuous-state dynamical system model, a reasonable abstraction of neural computation. In this study, we investigate t...

Learners are able to use 2 different types of knowledge to perform a skill. One type is a conscious mental model, and the other is based on memories of instances. The authors conducted 3 experiments that manipulated training conditions designed to affect the availability of 1 or both types of knowledge about an artificial grammar. Participants were tested for both speed and accuracy of their ab...

in arabic grammar, adjective is one of the five syntactic appositives and thus follows the features and rules of syntactic apposition. usually, there is a main principle on which a consensus of the authentic references is recorded, while the minor rules and secondary regulations might vary in different grammar books. this paper aims at representing ibn ya’ish ‘s viewpoints on adjective and subs...