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Parallels in Processing Boundary Cues in Speech and Action
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Speech and action sequences are continuous streams of information that can be segmented into sub-units. In both domains, this segmentation can be facilitated by perceptual cues contained within the information stream.
Matt Hilton +3 more
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Aiming for Cognitive Equivalence – Mental Models as a Tertium Comparationis for Translation and Empirical Semantics [PDF]
, 2017 This paper introduces my concept of cognitive equivalence (cf. Mandelblit, 1997), an attempt to reconcile elements of Nida’s dynamic equivalence with recent innovations in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, and building on the current focus ...
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Learning a second language as an evidence of brain plasticity [In Persian] [PDF]
آموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی, 2021 The study of the relationship between the brain and language learning has always been of interest to researchers in various sciences. This may be due to the multidimensional nature of language that influences other human activities.
Fatemeh Shafiei, Habibollah Ghassemzadeh
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Linguistic and non-linguistic non-adjacent dependency learning in early development
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020 Non-adjacent dependencies (NADs) are important building blocks for language and extracting them from the input is a fundamental part of language acquisition.
Anne van der Kant +5 more
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Perception of ATR contrasts by Akan speakers: a case of perceptual near-merger
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Despite many acoustic, articulatory and phonological studies of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel contrasts and vowel harmony, studies of the perception of ATR contrasts by speakers of languages with ATR vowel distinctions are lacking. This paper explores
Michael Obiri-Yeboah +2 more
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Facial Displays in Signed Languages: a CG Analysis [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 INTRODUCTIONSigned languages employ finely articulated facial displays to express grammatical meanings (Pfau and Quer 2010; Reilly 2006, Wilbur 2000, Dachkovsky and Sandler 2009).
Sara Siyavoshi, Sherman Wilcox
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Attention and empirical studies of grammar [PDF]
, 2006 How is the generation of a grammatical sentence implemented by the human brain? A starting place for such an inquiry lies in linguistic theory. Unfortunately, linguistic theories illuminate only abstract knowledge representations and do not indicate how ...
Myachykov, Andriy +2 more
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Auditory-perceptual acuity impacts prosodic boundary prediction in a gating task
Frontiers in Language SciencesProcessing of prosodic phrasing requires listeners to integrate acoustic cues that unfold incrementally during speech comprehension, yet substantial individual differences exist in how listeners use unfolding prosodic information. This study investigated
Andrea Hofmann +4 more
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Languages, 2022 Auditory word recognition in the non-dominant language has been suggested to break down under noisy conditions due, in part, to the difficulty of deriving a benefit from contextually constraining information.
Melinda Fricke, Megan Zirnstein
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Glossa PsycholinguisticsMany languages allow flexible word orders, and how humans parse and comprehend them has been one of the central questions in psycholinguistics. Mounting evidence has suggested that not only syntactic factors (e.g., the formation of a filler–gap ...
Daiki Asami, Satoshi Tomioka
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