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1997-01-01
If speech-language pathologists are to identify bilingual children in need of intervention, it is essential to understand the normal variations of bilingual acquisition and how it is the same or different from monolingual development. In this paper, we present an overview of the basics of...
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Lexical tone processing by monolingual and bilingual speakers of tone and non-tone languages
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This study tests early Chinese-English bilinguals’ perception of Thai lexical tone. Lexical tone is a feature that is used contrastively in Chinese but not in English. Chinese-learning infants exhibit native-like treatment of Thai tonal contours, while English learners exhibit non-native...
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Networking through regional accents: The influence of individual differences in social network properties on regional accent processing
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This thesis investigates the influence of social network size and social network “racial” diversity on regional accent processing. 122 participants listened to recorded English speech produced by 24 native English speakers. These 24 native speakers consisted of six different English speech...
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Pattern Learning and Accent Familiarity in Monolingual and Bilingual English Speakers: Generalizing Learning Across Accented Speech
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It is increasingly common to encounter speakers with an accented variety of English, especially as society becomes more diverse and multilingual. To begin shedding light on how to improve communication outcomes when interacting with a speaker who has an accent, this research investigates...
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Fall 2023
Previous research indicates that knowledge about sociocultural norms affects language processing immediately and automatically. One such example is the Stereotype Effect, where sentences containing violations of gender stereotypes take longer to read and are rated as less appropriate than...
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Reading (between) the lines: Individual differences in emotion processing of native- and foreign-accented speech
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Previous literature on foreign-accented speech processing indicates the presence of an accent can influence perception and comprehension across multiple levels of language processing, but emotion inferencing appears to remain as one unexplored area in this context. To our knowledge, this research...
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2007-06-01
Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair
Script of a dialogue performed under the title “Reading Tools, or Text Analysis Tools as Objects of Interpretation”. This was presented at a session on “Representation and Analysis” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The dialogue discusses the...