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Relating Lexical Access and Second Language Speaking Performance
Vocabulary plays a key role in speech production, affecting multiple stages of language processing. This pilot study investigates the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ lexical access and their speaking fluency, speaking accuracy, and ...
Yu Liu
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Lexical stress and lexical access: Homographs versus nonhomographs [PDF]
The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptual effects of altering lexical stress during word recognition. A detection task was utilized to measure subjects’ speed of response to target phonemes preceded by two-syllable homograph and nonhomograph words. These experimental words were pronounced with correct/incorrect lexical stress.
L H, Small, S D, Simon, J S, Goldberg
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Lexical Access in Spanish-English Bilinguals: Manual Stroop Effect [PDF]
The Stroop task is a popular paradigm to investigate bilingual cognitive control. The present study, with Spanish-English bilinguals, investigates the degree of automaticity in bilingual language processing and observes the role that proficiency plays in
Li Anrui
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Gender and lexical access in Italian [PDF]
Two new procedures were employed to investigate the effects of semantic and grammatical gender on lexical access in Italian and to investigate the interaction of gender with other factors that are known to influence lexical access in other languages.
B.A.T.E.S. E +4 more
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The Effect of Semantic Context on Lexical Access in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder [PDF]
Objectives: Lexical access problems are one of the limitations observed in children with developmental language disorders during the initial years of schooling. Semantic context has a powerful influence on lexical access.
Fatemeh Hassanati +4 more
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Does Proficiency Level Affect Learners’ Lexical Access in L1 and L2?
Proficiency level is one important factor that contributes to learners’ language performance. Learners with higher proficiency levels tend to perform lexical access better and faster than those with lower proficiency.
Muzakki Bashori
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Syllabic Effects in Italian Lexical Access [PDF]
Two cross-modal priming experiments tested whether lexical access is constrained by syllabic structure in Italian. Results extend the available Italian data on the processing of stressed syllables showing that syllabic information restricts the set of candidates to those structurally consistent with the intended word (Experiment 1).
TAGLIAPIETRA L +3 more
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Semantic access in number word translation - The role of crosslingual lexical similarity [PDF]
The revised hierarchical model of bilingualism (e.g., Kroll & Stewart, 1994) assumes that second language (1,2) words primarily access semantics through their first language (L1) translation equivalents.
Brysbaert, Marc, Duyck, Wouter
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Gender and lexical access in Bulgarian [PDF]
Two procedures were used to explore the effects of semantic and grammatical gender on the recognition and processing of Bulgarian nouns, in relation to other factors that are known to affect lexical access. This study in a three-gender language was modeled on previous work in Italian, a two-gender language (Bates, Devescovi, Pizzamiglio, D'Amico ...
ANDONOVA, E +3 more
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This study investigated the perception of Mandarin tonal alternations in disyllabic words. In Mandarin, a low-dipping Tone3 is converted to a high-rising Tone2 when followed by another Tone3, known as third tone sandhi.
Jung-Yueh Tu, Yu-Fu Chien
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