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2020-01-01

Aida Radu, Taylor Munro-Ryks

This infographic represents a knowledge mobilization tool for early childhood educators working with children whose first language is not English. Knowledge mobilization tools are often used to disseminate important research findings to non-academic audiences in an accessible way. The content...

2019-03-26

Lucia C. Passaro, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci

This paper presents some preliminary results of the SIDE project, which aims at investigating the emotional content of idioms from both a behavioral and computational point of view. In this first work, we collected affective ratings for a set of 45 Italian verb-noun idioms and 45 Italian...

2019-03-25

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...

2019-03-26

Katherine R. Matchett, Lori Buchanan

This exploratory archival analysis investigates the relationships probabilistic co-occurrence measures of semantic association and semantic richness have with subjective measures of semantic transparency in English compound words. We also examine their correlations with behavioural measures....

2019-03-14

Nattanun Chanchaochai, Ava Creemers

We present two auditory-auditory priming experiments investigating whether decomposition effects for pseudo-related prime-target pairs like corner → CORN are restricted to early visual word recognition [10] or can also be found in auditory processing. Experiment 1 shows no difference in...

2019-04-01

Shiloh Drake

Wug Tests can be used to probe morphological knowledge, from the stages of morphological development in the classic Wug Test [1], to the productivity of morphemes in a human language [6, 21], to testing the acquisition of an artificial grammar [7, 9, 22]. The present study tested three speaker...

2019-03-26

Sara D. Beck, Andrea Weber

In a self-paced reading study, we investigated the extent to which non-native speakers use biasing context in idiom processing, and whether idiom literality limits these effects as it does in native speakers. Idioms with a high potential for literal interpretations (e.g., break the ice) and a low...

2019-03-28

Kaidi Lõo, Juhani Järvikivi

The question whether complex words, including pseudocomplex words (e.g., corn+er), are obligatorily segmented into existing morphemes (e.g., [24]) has been the topic of a large body of past morphological processing research. A recent line of studies finds consistent effects of the whole-word...

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;...

2019-03-25

Tsung-Ying Chen, Yi-Sin Sie

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...