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Results for "supervisors_tesim:"Järvikivi, Juhani (Linguistics)""
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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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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...
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Spring 2020
This dissertation examines the influence of various extra-linguistic aspects on language comprehension. While language comprehension is generally understood to be influenced by real-world context, and by certain individual difference variables such as the listener’s mood, it is unclear how an...
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Perception and Production of Yorùbá Tones by Young and Adult native Yorùbá speakers and native speakers of non-tone languages
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Young participants (8-16-year-old) and adults (18 years +) from three different language backgrounds (Yorùbá speakers in Nigeria, Yorùbá speakers in Canada, and English speakers in Canada), participated in four perception experiments (one AX Discrimination, two Identification, and one Lexical),...
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Homophony and Phonological Contrasts in Novel Word Learning: A Visual World Eye-Tracking Study with Adult Native and Non-Native Speakers
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This thesis used visual world eye-tracking to examine how adults from native and non-native backgrounds learn novel words that contain homophones and non-homophones, and vary in different types of phonological contrasts: consonant contrasts, tone contrasts, and consonant & tone contrasts. It also...
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Comprehension of Evidentiality in Spoken Turkish: Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
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This thesis investigated the comprehension of evidentiality in Turkish heritage speakers and first generation immigrants, in comparison to monolingual speakers using a self-paced listening task. The question of how individual differences, such as the speakers’ proficiency and language environment...
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Production and perception of reduced speech and the role of phonological-orthographic consistency
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This dissertation examines the effect of orthography in the perception of spontaneous Japanese speech by investigating how phonetic reduction interacts with the effect of sound-to-spelling inconsistencies (i.e., phonological-orthographic (P-O) consistency effect) for L1 and L2 Japanese speakers....
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Fall 2017
A socio-cognitive approach to language assumes language is multimodal, embodied in general cognition, and modulated by contextual cues (van Dijk, 2014). Research on situation models confirms that language is processed multimodally and experiences top-down influence from pre-existing knowledge in...
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Spring 2017
Spoken language comprehension is a complex task that involves taking into account many types of information at the same rate as speech unfolds. It is established that adults use both non-linguistic cues, such as visual context, as well as linguistic cues, such as semantic animacy, to maximize...
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Mobile Eye Tracking During Storybook Listening: Applying the Visual World Paradigm in the Investigation of Preschoolers' Online Discourse Processing
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The current thesis assessed the application of the visual world eye tracking paradigm (VWP) as a tool for investigating online language processing in a naturalistic setting. Furthermore, it investigated how individual differences in vocabulary and working memory influence children’s eye movements...