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2020-12-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

Research on speech perception and lexical access often uses the activation and competition metaphor to describe the process of spoken word recognition. One way of expressing competition associated with a given word is its phonological neighborhood density, which is a calculation of similarity....

2019-03-26

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...

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...

2008

Beck, D.

2010

Kanu, Sullay M., Tucker, Benjamin V.

2020-12-20

Fitzner, Victoria

This study investigates the activation of gender stereotypes through the use of reference in pronoun resolution. More precisely, the question asked in this thesis is how social stereotypes activated through the speaker's voice (based on their gender and accent) affect language processing when...

2015-04-29

Porretta, Vincent, Tucker, Benjamin V.

Intelligibility and degree of accentedness are interrelated aspects of non-native speech. Previous research suggests that foreign accentedness is influenced by phonetic distance measures [7]. These distance measures may also influence the intelligibility of individual words. In the present study...

2009

Ménard, N., Van Nhan, N., Le, E.

This qualitative exploratory study of Vietnamese interpreters in Vietnam argues that the progressive dispelling of the interpreters’ invisibility myth must be accompanied by an increased importance paid to interpreters’ identities during their training. Indeed, the type(s) and extent of...

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;...

2019-11-04

Tucker, Benjamin V.