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Order Effects in Second Language Learning
Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 623-665, September 2025.Abstract We explore how general principles of learning apply to and combine with usage‐based approaches to language learning and teaching, with a focus on the effects of order of exposure to new information in second language (L2) instruction. Although the effects of input spacing and timing on memory and learning have been previously explored (see ...
Laurence Romain +2 more
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 801-831, September 2025.Abstract This study tested whether encouraging prediction enhances prediction in second language (L2) speakers. L2 English speakers listened to English sentences like The woman … will read/buy one of the newspapers while viewing the target (a newspaper) and distractor objects (a rose, a bowl, and a mango) on a screen and clicked on the target as ...
Aine Ito
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Effects of Cumulative Context and Guessing Methods On Estimates of Transition Probability in Speech
, 1975 This study investigated the effects of cumulative context and of various guessing methods on transition probability estimates derived from the same speech materials. Transition probability estimates obtained from the single-guess and continuous-guessing
John P. Burke, Nicholas Schiavetti
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Foreign cultural norms are better accepted in the second language
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1551, Issue 1, Page 257-269, September 2025.Using behavioral and brain potential measures, we tested Chinese–English bilinguals’ acceptance of statements. While participants processed culture‐nonspecific generic knowledge similarly in their L1 Chinese and L2 English, the violation effect elicited by British culture statements was abolished when they were read in L2 English.
Jiehui Hu +6 more
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, 2019 Target selection. Rhyme cloze probability values for one linguistic item as obtained in the sentence completion pre-test. The words hart (high-cloze probability) and start (low-clozeprobability) were selected for the EEG experiment because of their match
Francesco Mantegna (5521247)
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In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker‐Specific Phonological Prediction
Psychophysiology, Volume 62, Issue 9, September 2025.ABSTRACT Prediction models usually assume that highly constraining contexts allow the pre‐activation of phonological information. However, the evidence for phonological prediction is mixed and controversial. In this study, we implement a paradigm that capitalizes on the phonological errors produced by L2 speakers to investigate whether specific ...
Marco Sala +4 more
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Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data [PDF]
, 2019 We contrast three views of how words contribute to a listener’s understanding of a sentence and compare corresponding quantitative models of how the listener’s probabilistic prediction on sentence completion is affected in online comprehension.
Wiedemann, Gregor +2 more
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and CognitionPrediction during language processing has been hypothesized to lead to processing benefits. These possible benefits have led to several prominent theories that center around prediction as an essential mechanism in language processing. Such theories typically assume predicting is better than not predicting at all, but do not always account for the ...
Julie Bannon +2 more
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When Meaning Matters Most: Rethinking Cloze Probability in N400 Research
Abstract The N400 component of ERPs is modulated by how predictable a word is, but predictability is usually quantified with lexical cloze —the probability that readers supply that exact word in offline sentence completion tasks.
Yana Arkhipova +3 more
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Probing sensitivity to argument structure in two proficiency level groups - An exploratory study with Norwegian learners of English [PDF]
, 2017 While a great deal of research has shown that native speakers are sensitive to the argument structure of verbs in their language, minimal research has been dedicated to sensitivity to argument structure in second language learners.
Hammerås, Mona Langeng
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