Annette: You may want to check out
your Anthropology department and see if there is someone specializin in
cross-cultural linguistics.
I grew up speaking two languages-English and French creole.When I was a grad
student at Mizzou,there was a prof there who did some linguistics
research on my island.Her interpretations of the island creole were all
wrong.I think re other languages,a distinction is made between "implicit"
comprehension and "expressive" comprehension.
I guess this is why Ebbinghaus saw the necessity of nonsense syllables in
his verbal learning and memory paradigm.You could also check out the
ESOL staff.Those ESOL faculty may be erudite in other languages. Btw,for
Comprehension and Memory text I recommend a text of one of my profs at
Mizzou THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY by Donald Kausler.
Hope this helps.
michael
"going beyond where no tipster has gone before"
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From: "Annette Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:08 AM
Subject: [tips] text comprehension in other languages
We are studying comprehension and memory for text in cog psych right
now--culminating in Kintsch's models. A student asked me if reading
comprehension is the same in all languages, those that have quite different
approaches to grammar and written language that might not parse the same way
romanized (?) languages do.
Does anyone have any expertise or knowledge on this? I am doubtful that it
is the same in languages whose text (writing and therefore reading of it)
depends on characters with an infusion of meanings into a single character;
or languages in which words depend on compounds of other words, etc. Our
language uses letters that together combine into meaningful words which can
then become ambiguous in certain situations.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
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