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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
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Vocabulary Opens the Door; Creativity Guides the Search: Complementary Contributions to Second Language Semantic Fluency Across Domains

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Semantic fluency, the ability to retrieve words within a category, relies on lexical knowledge, semantic memory and executive control mechanisms. A richer, interconnected semantic memory and optimal executive control, as seen in creative individuals, enhance fluency through broad associative searches and quicker access to remote concepts ...
Almudena Fernández‐Fontecha
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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
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Psycholinguistic Aspects of Formation of Culture of Dialogical Communication [PDF]

, 2019
Вступ. У статті подаються результати дослідження зразків англомовної літературної спадщини, на яких розкриваються психолінгвістичні особливості діалогічного спілкування і особливості сприймання комунікантами смислів інтеракцій у діалогічному мовленні ...
Паламар, Світлана Павлівна, Порядченко, Леся Анатоліївна   +1 more
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Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
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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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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
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Spatialization of time in Mian

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012
We examine representations of time among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea. We begin by describing the patterns of spatial and temporal reference in Mian. Mian uses a system of spatial terms that derive from the orientation and direction of the Hak and Sek
Sebastian eFedden, Sebastian eFedden, Lera eBoroditsky, Lera eBoroditsky   +3 more
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Questions and responses in Lao [PDF]

, 2010
This paper surveys the structure of questions and their responses in Lao, a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Data are from video-recordings of naturally occurring conversation in Vientiane, Laos.
Enfield, N.
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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
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