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Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A plea for more interactions between psycholinguistics and natural language processing research [PDF]

, 2014
A new development in psycholinguistics is the use of regression analyses on tens of thousands of words, known as the megastudy approach. This development has led to the collection of processing times and subjective ratings (of age of acquisition ...
Brysbaert, Marc, Keuleers, Emmanuel, Mandera, Pawel   +2 more
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Lexically specific knowledge and individual differences in adult native speakers’ processing of the English passive [PDF]

, 2014
This article provides experimental evidence for the role of lexically specific representations in the processing of passive sentences and considerable education-related differences in comprehension of the passive construction.
Dabrowska, Ewa, Street, James
core   +1 more source

Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgements and automated machine learning judgements. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite deceptive statements to appear truthful pose a serious threat.
Bennett Kleinberg, Riccardo Loconte, Bruno Verschuere   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational facial signals combine into compositional meanings that change the interpretation of speaker intentions

Scientific Reports
Human language is extremely versatile, combining a limited set of signals in an unlimited number of ways. However, it is unknown whether conversational visual signals feed into the composite utterances with which speakers communicate their intentions. We
James P. Trujillo, Judith Holler
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of speech rate and practice on the allocation of visual attention in multiple object naming

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
Earlier studies had shown that speakers naming several objects typically look at each object until they have retrieved the phonological form of its name and therefore look longer at objects with long names than at objects with shorter names.
Antje eMeyer, Linda Ruth Wheeldon, Agnieszka eKonopka   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in cerebral cortical anatomy of left- and right-handers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
The left and right sides of the human brain are specialized for different kinds of information processing, and much of our cognition is lateralized to an extent towards one side or the other.
Tulio eGuadalupe, Roel M Willems, Roel M Willems, Marcel P Zwiers, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Alejandro eArias Vasquez, Martine eHoogman, Martine eHoogman, Peter eHagoort, Peter eHagoort, Guillén eFernández, Guillén eFernández, Jan eBuitelaar, Jan eBuitelaar, Barbara eFranke, Barbara eFranke, Barbara eFranke, Simon Edward Fisher, Simon Edward Fisher, Clyde eFrancks, Clyde eFrancks   +21 more
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Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture. [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT How do children allocate visual attention to scenes as they prepare to describe them multimodally in speech and co‐speech gesture? In an eye‐tracking study, Turkish‐speaking 8‐year‐old children viewed four‐picture displays depicting the same two objects in different spatial relations as they prepared to describe target pictures depicting left ...
Ünal E, Karadöller DZ, Özyürek A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Statistical methods for linguistic research: Foundational Ideas - Part I

, 2016
We present the fundamental ideas underlying statistical hypothesis testing using the frequentist framework. We begin with a simple example that builds up the one-sample t-test from the beginning, explaining important concepts such as the sampling ...
Nicenboim, Bruno, Vasishth, Shravan
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