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How Iconicity Helps People Learn New Words: Neural Correlates and Individual Differences in Sound-Symbolic Bootstrapping

open access: yesCollabra, 2016
Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing.
Gwilym Lockwood   +2 more
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Assessing the effects of common variation in the FOXP2 gene on human brain structure

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
The FOXP2 transcription factor is one of the most well-known genes to have been implicated in developmental speech and language disorders. Rare mutations disrupting the function of this gene have been described in different families and cases. In a large
Martine eHoogman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Breathing for answering: the time course of response planning in conversation.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
In this study, we investigate the timing of pre-answer inbreaths in order to shed light on the time course of response planning and execution in conversational turn-taking.
Francisco eTorreira   +3 more
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Keeping it simple: Studying grammatical encoding with lexically-reduced item sets

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Compared to the large body of work on lexical access, little research has been done on grammatical encoding in language production. An exception is the generation of subject-verb agreement.
Alma eVeenstra   +4 more
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Eyes as Windows to Minds: Psycholinguistics for Experimental Philosophy

open access: yesMethodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy, 2019
Psycholinguistic methods hold great promise for experimental philosophy. Many philosophical thought experiments and arguments proceed from verbal descriptions of possible cases.
E. Fischer, P. Engelhardt
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of native-language knowledge in the perception of casual speech in a second language

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Casual speech processes, such as /t/-reduction, make word recognition harder. Additionally, word-recognition is also harder in a second language (L2). Combining these challenges, we investigated whether L2 learners have recourse to knowledge from their ...
Holger eMitterer, Annelie eTuinman
doaj   +1 more source

Problems of Modeling the Processes of Audition in the World Psycholinguistics

open access: yesPSYCHOLINGUISTICS, 2019
Introduction. The problem of listening comprehension modeling is one of the most debatable in psycholinguistics: so far, in both Western European and American and Eastern European psycholinguistic sciences, the search for the possibility of developing a ...
Лариса Калмикова   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A little more conversation - The influence of communicative context on syntactic priming in brain and behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
We report on an fMRI syntactic priming experiment in which we measure brain activity for participants who communicate with another participant outside the scanner.
Lotte eSchoot   +6 more
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What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The study examined the contributions of verbal ability and executive control to verbal fluency performance in older adults (n=82). Verbal fluency was assessed in letter and category fluency tasks, and performance on these tasks was related to indicators ...
Zeshu eShao   +6 more
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The Role of Psycholinguistics in Language Learning and Teaching

open access: yes, 2018
Psycholinguistics has provided numerous theories that explain how a person acquires a language, produces and perceives both spoken and written language. The theories have been used in the field of language teaching.
Norita Purba
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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