The role of native-language knowledge in the perception of casual speech in a second language
Frontiers 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
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The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions. [PDF]
, 2006 Choosing appropriate referring expressions requires assessing whether a referent is “available” to the addressee either perceptually or through discourse.
Anna Theakston +4 more
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Early predictors of phonological and morphological awareness and the link with reading : evidence from children with different patterns of early deficit [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines the contribution of early phonological processing (PP) and language skills on later phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA), as well as the links among PA, MA, and reading.
ANNA J. CUNNINGHAM +9 more
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Frontiers 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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Keeping it simple: Studying grammatical encoding with lexically-reduced item sets
Frontiers 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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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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Breathing for answering: the time course of response planning in conversation.
Frontiers 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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A longitudinal study of phonological processing skills and reading in bilingual children [PDF]
, 2005 French/English bilingual children (N=40) in French language schools participated in an 8-month longitudinal study of the relation between phonological processing skills and reading in French and English.
Gottardo, Alexandra, Lafrance, Adèle
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a single, sudden mutation giving rise to the full modern package.
Dan eDediu, Stephen C Levinson
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Statistical methods for linguistic research: Foundational Ideas - Part II
, 2016 We provide an introductory review of Bayesian data analytical methods, with a focus on applications for linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.
Nicenboim, Bruno, Vasishth, Shravan
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