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The Omission of Accent Marks Does Not Hinder Word Recognition: Evidence From Spanish
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent research has found that the omission of accent marks in Spanish does not produce slower word identification times in go/no-go lexical decision and semantic categorization tasks [e.g., cárcel (prison) = carcel], thus suggesting that vowels like á ...
Ana Marcet +4 more
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Auditory perception modulated by word reading [PDF]
, 2016 Theories of embodied cognition positing that sensorimotor areas are indispensable during language comprehension are supported by neuroimaging and behavioural studies.
Biermann-Ruben, Katja +4 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 People who grow up speaking a language without lexical tones typically find it difficult to master tonal languages after childhood. Accumulating research suggests that much of the challenge for these second language (L2) speakers has to do not with ...
Eric Pelzl +4 more
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Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor: Effects of letter bigram frequency in visual lexical decision do not reflect reading processes [PDF]
, 2017 Psycholinguistic researchers identify linguistic variables and assess if they affect cognitive processes. One such variable is letter bigram frequency, or the frequency with which a given letter pair co-occurs in an orthography.
Mulatti, Claudio, Schmalz, Xenia
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Emotion words and categories: evidence from lexical decision [PDF]
, 2013 We examined the categorical nature of emotion word recognition. Positive, negative, and neutral words were presented in lexical decision tasks. Word frequency was additionally manipulated.
O'Donnell, Patrick +2 more
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Age-Dependent Positivity-Bias in Children’s Processing of Emotion Terms
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Emotions play an important role in human communication, and the daily-life interactions of young children often include situations that require the verbalization of emotional states with verbal means, e.g., with emotion terms.
Daniela Bahn +4 more
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Is More Always Better for Verbs? Semantic Richness Effects and Verb Meaning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 We examined how several semantic richness variables contribute to verb meaning, across a number of tasks. Because verbs can vary in tense, and the manner in which tense is coded (i.e., regularity), we also examined how these factors moderated the effects
David M Sidhu +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Previous studies have shown that iconic gestures presented in an isolated manner prime visually presented semantically related words. Since gestures and speech are almost always produced together, this study examined whether iconic gestures accompanying
Wing Chee eSo +4 more
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, 2020 To test the BIA+ and Multilink models’ accounts of how bilinguals process words with different degrees of cross-linguistic orthographic and semantic overlap, we conducted two experiments manipulating stimulus list composition.
Dijkstra, T. +3 more
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Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent? [PDF]
, 2001 This study explores the hypothesis that children identified as having phonological processing problems may have particular difficulty in processing a different accent. Children with speech difficulties (n = 18) were compared with matched controls on four
Nathan, L., Wells, B.
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