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evised hierarchical model and bilingual language production model. With the development of
technique, psycholinguists should combine linguists, psychology, and cognitive neurobiology to
study this effect deeply. In China, because of the orthography degree, this research can elicitates
Chinese-English teaching and learning.
1098.89 Eye movements during reading: Some current problems and controversies, Shihua
Huang, South China Normal University, China
Today more and more researchers have interested in this issue: the relation between reading and
eye-movement. They have discovered and examined many variables that affect the nature of
readers’ eye movements during reading. Despite of numerous consistent conclusions, there are still
some crucial problems unresolved. In this article, we will discuss three controversial issues of
these problems: (1) The low-level oculomotor factor and the higher-level cognitive process, which
will have more influence on eye movements? (2) Which type of information can readers get from
the right of fixation (i.e, parafoveal)? (3) Can readers process more than one word at one time?
1098.90 Prosody generation in language production, Jin Chen Yang, Yufang Yang, Institute of
Psychology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
It reviewed transversely the researches related to prosody generation in language production,
basing on issues they concerned. Most findings suggest that there is an abstract metrical structure
independent of segmental content in word production. It includes information of stress pattern and
syllable number. In the production of phrase and sentence, prosodic structure and pause pattern are
both independent of syntactic structure. Prosodic word is the preferred and minimal unit of
processing during the phonological encoding of connected speech. The generation of linguistically
geared prosody tends to activate left hemisphere.
1098.91 Phonological awareness of l1 and l2 and English word reading of Chinese children
learning EFL, Ying Liu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
As Chinese children nationwide are beginning to receive English instruction, we need to
understand how they acquire English literacy skills. Phonological factors contribute to English
children’s acquisition of word reading skills. However, whether this applies to children learning
English in China is not clear. The fact that Chinese children learn to read characters and use pinyin
to aid reading makes the situation even more complicated. This study aims to find out the
relationship between Chinese children’s phonological skills in both English and Chinese and their
English word reading. Grade 3 children are tested on a number of skills.
1098.92 Mental state verbs and emotional verbs in the production of narratives in childhood and
adulthood, Maria Rosa Sole, Olga Soler, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Spain
This work aims to study the production of emotional and mental state verbs in a narrative uttered
by 60 children of different ages (5,7,9,11 and 13 years) and 20 adults (10 undergraduate and 10
old-aged-people). Participants were asked to recall a videotaped story. The study focuses on the
relationships between categories making up a story- according to the grammars of story- and the
production of emotional, cognitive and distancing verbs. Results show that the production of
emotional and mental verbs is limited in this narrative. Nevertheless, these kinds of verbs appear
more frequently in certain narrative categories.
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