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I know Spanish Which Romance language should I learn next L2 influence on L3 word recognition
Download2019-03-25
David Beard, Emily Neff, Ally Bucher
The present study addresses historical and contemporary discussions on second and third language vocabulary development, specifically the effects of lexical similarity. Second language learners of Spanish aspiring to learn another romance language completed a translation recognition task with...
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A reassessment of the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on L2 English word learning
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Two groups of participants were formed according to their level of English: high and low proficiency. No differences were found between groups. Although visual preference for three competitors was different in four time windows, supporting the existence of lexical processing in cascade, a...
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2019-03-14
This study illustrates how cluster analysis can be applied to vocabulary assessment to classify students into groups with similar profiles of vocabulary knowledge so that vocabulary instruction can be designed and targeted more precisely, especially in light of the multi-dimensional nature of the...
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2019-07-01
The Jodï are a small indigenous group of approximately 1,000 people living in relative isolation in the Venezuelan Sierra de Maigualida. Their language has generally been treated as an isolate or left unclassified in the language classification literature. However, different researchers have...
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2019-03-14
Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin, Amy Goodwin Davies, Robert J. Wilder, David Embick
We report results from two experiments in which the effects of rhyme prime (RP) are investigated by manipulating the properties of the interveners between prime and target. Studies of visual priming report that interveners have differing effects depending on the types of processing they require;...
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Measuring the dispersion of density in head and neck cancer patients' vowel spaces: The vowel dispersion index
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Matthew C. Kelley, Daniel Aalto
The present study introduces a measure of the dispersion of density throughout the vowel space, which we refer to as the vowel dispersion index. The vowel dispersion index is based on calculating the total variation of the density values in Story & Bunton’s (2017) convex hull representation of...
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2019-03-26
Phoebe Gaston, Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips
In this study we address whether contextual constraints can override bottom-up phonological information during auditory word recognition. Standard models of word recognition assume that cohort competition arises when auditory input increases the activation of word-forms with matching phonological...
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2019-03-26
Nancy Azevedo, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Kathleen Berkun, Alexandra Papathanasopoulos, Leen Yamani, Alexander Rokos, Eva Kehayia
A typical N400 event-related potential (ERP) component occurs when the brain detects a semantic contradiction and can be elicited by the canonical experiment where the final word of a sentence contradicts what a listener is expecting to hear. In the absence of an N400 elicitation paradigm in...
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2019-01-21
Catherine Ford, Filip Nenadić, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker
Contextually predictable, high frequency, competitor-dense words are often produced with less phonetically contrastive categories in spontaneous speech, often manifested with shorter durations. The present study investigates the role of temporal variation in the recognition of isolated words...
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I bet I’ll remember “biochemistry” – Meta-memory as a function of lexical features and language background
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Grace C. Lin, Rachel N. Smith, Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, Masha R. Jones, Susanne M. Jaeggi
Previous research has shown that people are more likely to remember positive and negative words compared to neutral words. The present study investigates whether participants with varying language backgrounds would differentially remember words based on the words’ lexical feature of valence. In a...