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The effect of polysemy on processing of Serbian nouns [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2008
It has been shown that while multiple unrelated meanings of a word (e.g. bank) increase processing latency, polysemy, that is multiple related word senses (e.g.
Filipović-Đurđević Dušica   +1 more
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Spoken word recognition in French

open access: yesRevista Lengua y Cultura, 2023
Different linguistic factors can influence the recognition of spoken words in French. We are interested in the impact of the linguistic factor of phonological density, which refers to the number of phonological neighbours of words and which is related to
Ingrid Tiscareño
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The Omission of Accent Marks Does Not Hinder Word Recognition: Evidence From Spanish

open access: yesFrontiers 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]

open access: yes, 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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Advanced Second Language Learners of Mandarin Show Persistent Deficits for Lexical Tone Encoding in Picture-to-Word Form Matching

open access: yesFrontiers 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]

open access: yes, 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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Age-Dependent Positivity-Bias in Children’s Processing of Emotion Terms

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Iconic gestures prime words: Comparison of Priming Effects when Gestures are Presented Alone and when They are Accompanying Speech

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Mixing the stimulus list in bilingual lexical decision turns cognate facilitation effects into mirrored inhibition effects

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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