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Phonology, homophony, and eyes-closed rest in Mandarin novel word learning: An eye-tracking study in adult native and non-native speakers Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Wenfu Bao, Anja Arnhold, Juhani Järvikivi
This study used the visual world paradigm to investigate novel word learning in adults from different language backgrounds and the effects of phonology, homophony, and rest on the outcome. We created Mandarin novel words varied by types of phonological contrasts and homophone status. During the experiment, native (n = 34) and non-native speakers (English; n = 30) learned pairs of novel words and were
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The development of postverbal subjects in L2 Italian: A multifactorial corpus analysis Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Andrea Listanti, Jacopo Torregrossa
Most studies on the acquisition of postverbal subjects (VS) in L2 Italian focus on a limited number of linguistic factors that tend to be associated with the production of VS in L1 (e.g., verb class and subject discourse status). Moreover, they analyze homogeneous groups of learners in terms of proficiency, mostly through controlled experiments. In this paper, we present a cross-sectional corpus study
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Affective and sensory–motor norms for idioms by L1 and L2 English speakers Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Mahsa Morid, Laura Sabourin
In the present study, we developed affective (valence and arousal) and sensory–motor (concreteness and imageability) norms for 210 English idioms rated by native English speakers (L1) and English second-language speakers (L2). Based on internal consistency analyses, the ratings were found to be highly reliable. Furthermore, we explored various relations within the collected measures (valence, arousal
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Examining the glottal stop as a mark of gender-inclusive language in German Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Anita Körner, Sarah Glim, Ralf Rummer
Grammatical gender form influences readers’ mental gender representations. Previous research demonstrates that the generic masculine form leads to male-biased representations, while some alternative forms lead to female-biased representations. The present research examines the recently introduced glottal stop form in spoken language in German, where a glottal stop (similar to a short pause), meant
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The effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Giulia Bovolenta, Emma Marsden
Inverse probability adaptation effects (the finding that encountering a verb in an unexpected structure increases long-term priming for that structure) have been observed in both L1 and L2 speakers. However, participants in these studies all had established representations of the syntactic structures to be primed. It therefore remains an open question whether inverse probability adaptation effects
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Subject-verb dependency formation and semantic interference in native and non-native language comprehension Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Hiroki Fujita, Ian Cunnings
Differences between native (L1) and non-native (L2) comprehension have been debated. This study explores whether a source of potential L1/L2 differences lies in susceptibility to memory-based interference during dependency formation. Interference effects are known to occur in sentences like The key to the cabinets were rusty, where ungrammaticality results from a number mismatch between the sentence
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Task-dependent consequences of disfluency in perception of native and non-native speech Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Zachary Houghton, Misaki Kato, Melissa Baese-Berk, Charlotte Vaughn
Silent pauses are a natural part of speech production and have consequences for speech perception. However, studies have shown mixed results regarding whether listeners process pauses in native and non-native speech similarly or differently. A possible explanation for these mixed results is that perceptual consequences of pauses differ depending on the type of processing that listeners engage in: a
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The comprehension of passives in Mandarin children with and without DLD: from the perspective of Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Jiao Du, Xiaowei He, Haopeng Yu
This paper investigates the comprehension of long and short passives in 15 Mandarin preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (aged 4;2–5;11 years), 15 Typically Developing Age-matched (TDA) (aged 4;3–5;8 years) children, and 15 Typically Developing Younger (TDY) (aged 3;2–4;3 years) children by using the picture-sentence matching task. The results reveal that children with DLD
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Lexical processing in children with hearing impairment in oral word reading in transparent Arabic orthography Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Mirna Mattar, Carole El Akiki, Jacqueline Leybaert
Word recognition mechanisms constitute an essential contribution to reading achievement in both deaf and hearing children. Little is known about how children with hearing impairment (HI) manage to read aloud words in the vowelled Arabic transparent script which provides full vowel information. This study aimed to compare word and pseudoword reading accuracy and speed between 32 Lebanese children with
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Statistical learning of phonotactics by children can be affected by another statistical learning task Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Peter T. Richtsmeier, Lisa Goffman
Children typically produce high-frequency phonotactic sequences, such as the /st/ in “toaster,” more accurately than the lower frequency /mk/ in “tomcat.” This high-frequency advantage can be simulated experimentally with a statistical learning paradigm, and when 4-year-old children are familiarized with many examples of a sequence like /mk/, they generally produce it more accurately than if they are
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What a thousand children tell us about grammatical complexity and working memory: A cross-sectional analysis on the comprehension of clitics and passives in Italian Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Vincenzo Moscati, Andrea Marini, Nicoletta Biondo
Data from 996 Italian-speaking children were collected and analyzed to assess whether a movement-based notion of grammatical complexity is adequate to capture the developmental trend of clitics and passives in Italian. A second goal of the study was to address the relationship between working memory and syntactic development, exploring the hypothesis that higher digit span values predict better comprehension
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Quantifying the uniqueness and efficiency of the MLAT relative to L1 attainment as a predictor of L2 achievement: A conceptual replication Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Richard L. Sparks, Philip S. Dale
In this conceptual replication of Sparks and Dale ([2023]. The prediction from MLAT to L2 achievement is largely due to MLAT asessment of underlying L1 abilities. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1–25) utilizing a dataset previously reported by Sparks et al. ([2009]. Long-term relationships among early L1 skills, L2 aptitude, L2 affect, and later L2 proficiency. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30
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Contrasting the semantic typology biases of Deaf and hearing nonsigners in their conceptualization of time and space Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 María Noel Macedo, Matías Yerro, Jorge Vivas, Mauricio Castillo, Maximiliano Meliande, Adriana de León, Alejandro Fojo, Roberto Aguirre
The mental lexicon offers a window into the configuration of conceptual domains such as space and time, which has been labeled as concrete the former and abstract the latter in the current embodiment approach to cognition. Space has a phonological and semantic value in sign languages, but not in spoken languages. Additionally, the representation of time by spatial means is robust in oral and sign languages
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Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Milica Popović Stijačić, Ksenija Mišić, Dušica Filipović Đurđević
In this study, we compared affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020), and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). We did not observe a significant change in average valence or arousal ratings across time points. A more detailed look into the data
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The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Evangelia Daskalaki, Adriana Soto-Corominas, Aisha Barisé, Johanne Paradis, Xi Chen, Alexandra Gottardo
Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by morphological cues. Given that in heritage contexts functional morphology is a vulnerable domain, a question that needs to be addressed is whether bilingual children, who are heritage speakers of their L1, will also be able to
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Perceptual salience and structural ambiguity resolution Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Jeffrey Witzel, Naoko Witzel
This study investigates whether the perceptual salience of grammatical morphemes influences the online processing of temporarily ambiguous sentences during adult first-language (L1) comprehension. In a bidirectional self-paced reading task, adult L1 English participants (N = 44) read sentences with time adjuncts that were in a structural position in which they could attach either to the most recent
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The contribution of affective content to cue-response correspondence in a word association task: Focus on emotion words and emotion-laden words Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Ángel-Armando Betancourt, Marc Guasch, Pilar Ferré
This study aimed at examining the contribution of affective content to the organization of words in the lexicon. Based on existing free association norms and on a series of questionnaires we developed, we examined the characteristics of the words produced as associates to 840 Spanish cue words. Half of them were affective words and the other half were neutral (non-affective) words. Among the affective
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Cross-linguistic influence, limited input, or working-memory limitations: The morphosyntax of agreement and concord in Heritage Russian Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Tatiana Verkhovtceva, Maria Polinsky, Natalia Meir
This study investigated the morphosyntax of adjectival concord in case and number and subject-verb person agreement by monolingual and bilingual speakers of Russian. The main focus of the study is on the potential factors that may trigger divergence between Heritage Language (HL) speakers and those speakers who are dominant in that language, be they monolingual or bilingual. We considered the effects
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The impact of lexical specificity training on at-risk emergent bilinguals Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Miao Li, Catherine E. Snow, Lauren Ely, Jan C. Frijters, Esther Geva, Becky Xi Chen
Emergent bilinguals (EBs) who are exposed to societal language at school but use another language at home may experience difficulties in mastering the societal language, especially those at risk for language and reading disabilities. Learning phonologically specific new words that discriminate between phonemes may foster phonological awareness and word reading. This study examined the effectiveness
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Using intonation to disambiguate meaning: The role of empathy and proficiency in L2 perceptual development Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Joseph V. Casillas, Juan José Garrido-Pozú, Kyle Parrish, Laura Fernández Arroyo, Nicole Rodríguez, Robert Esposito, Isabelle Chang, Kimberly Gómez, Gabriela Constantin-Dureci, Jiawei Shao, Iván Andreu Rascón, Katherine Taveras
The present study investigates the interplay between proficiency and empathy in the development of second language (L2) prosody by analyzing the perception and processing of intonation in questions and statements in L2 Spanish. A total of 225 adult L2 Spanish learners (L1 English) from the Northeastern United States completed a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) task in which they listened to four
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Second language speech comprehensibility and acceptability in academic settings: Listener perceptions and speech stream influences Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Dustin Crowther, Daniel R. Isbell, Hitoshi Nishizawa
Ideally, comprehensible second language (L2) speech would be seen as acceptable speech. However, the association between these dimensions is underexplored. To investigate the relationship between comprehensibility and “academic acceptability,” defined here as how well a speaker could meet the demands of a given role in an academic setting, 204 university stakeholders judged L2 speech samples elicited
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Performance pay and non-native language comprehension: Can we learn to understand better when we’re paid to listen? Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Chasen Afghani, Melissa M. Baese-Berk, Glen R. Waddell
Non-native speech is difficult for native listeners to understand. While listeners can learn to understand non-native speech after exposure, it is unclear how to optimize this learning. Experimental subjects transcribed non-native speech and were paid either a flat rate or based on their performance. Participants who were paid based on performance demonstrated improved performance overall and faster
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The choice of musical instrument matters: Effect of pitched but not unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 William Choi, Cheuk Yiu To, Runqing Cheng
The present study investigated the differential effects of pitched and unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning. We recruited 44 Cantonese-pitched musicians, unpitched musicians, and non-musicians. They completed a Thai tone identification task and seven sessions of Thai tone word learning. In the tone identification task, the pitched musicians outperformed the non-musicians
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Presuppositions are more persuasive than assertions if addressees accommodate them: Experimental evidence for philosophical reasoning Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Dieter Thoma, Kira Becker, Anica Kißler
Best practice and descriptive research claim that presuppositions, such as the “too” in “#MeToo,” increase the persuasiveness of arguments. Surprisingly, there is hardly any causal evidence for this claim. Therefore, we tested experimentally if advertisements and political statements with presuppositions are more persuasive than equivalent assertions. In 1999, Sbisà already theorized that “persuasive
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Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Ethan Kutlu, Rachel Hayes-Harb
We introduce the pair of special issues of Applied Psycolinguistics (this issue, next issue) titled “Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics.” This paper motivates the need for this project, details the editorial process, and provides a brief summary of each article appearing in the special issues.
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The role of phonology-to-orthography consistency in predicting the degree of pupil dilation induced in processing reduced and unreduced speech Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Yoichi Mukai, Juhani Järvikivi, Benjamin V. Tucker
The relationship between the ways in which words are pronounced and spelled has been shown to affect spoken word processing, and a consistent relationship between pronunciation and spelling has been reported as a possible cause of unreduced pronunciations being easier to process than reduced counterparts although reduced pronunciations occur more frequently. In the present study, we investigate the
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Exploring individual variation in Turkish heritage speakers’ complex linguistic productions: Evidence from discourse markers Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Onur Özsoy, Frederic Blum
Research on multilingual speakers is often compared to monolingual baselines which are commonly treated as if they were homogeneous across speakers. Despite recent research showing that this homogeneity does not hold, these practices reproduce native-speakerism and monolingualism. Heritage language research, which established itself in the past two decades, is no exemption. Focusing on three predefined
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Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and disorders Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Bob McMurray, Keith S. Baxelbaum, Sarah Colby, J. Bruce Tomblin
Classic psycholinguistics seeks universal language mechanisms for all people, emphasizing the “modal” listener: hearing, neurotypical, monolingual, and young adults. Applied psycholinguistics then characterizes differences in terms of their deviation from the modal. This mirrors naturalist philosophies of health which presume a normal function, with illness as a deviation. In contrast, normative positions
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The predictive processing of number information in subregular verb morphology in a first and second language Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Eva Marie Koch, Bram Bulté, Alex Housen, Aline Godfroid
We investigated the predictive processing of grammatical number information through stem-vowel alternations in German strong verbs by adult first language (L1) speakers and Dutch-speaking advanced second language (L2) learners of German, and the influence of working memory and awareness (i.e., whether participants consciously registered the predictive cue) thereon. While changed stem vowels indicate
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Frequency effects in Spanish phonological speech errors: Weak sources in the context of weak syllables and words Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Julio Santiago, Elvira Pérez, Alfonso Palma, Joseph Paul Stemberger
The present study examines the effects of the frequency of phoneme, syllable, and word units in the Granada corpus of Spanish phonological speech errors. We computed several measures of phoneme and syllable frequency and selected the most sensitive ones, along with word (lexeme) frequency to compare the frequencies of source, target, and error units at the phoneme, syllable, and word levels. Results
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The impact of dialect differences on spoken language comprehension Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Arynn S. Byrd, Yi Ting Huang, Jan Edwards
Research has suggested that children who speak African American English (AAE) have difficulty using features produced in Mainstream American English (MAE) but not AAE, to comprehend sentences in MAE. However, past studies mainly examined dialect features, such as verbal -s, that are produced as final consonants with shorter durations when produced in conversation which impacts their phonetic saliency
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The growth trajectories of morphological awareness and its predictors Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Tomohiro Inoue, George K. Georgiou, Rauno Parrila
The purpose of this study was to examine the early growth of morphological awareness and its predictors. We followed 172 English-speaking Canadian children (82 girls, 90 boys, Mage = 75.56 months at the first assessment point) from Grade 1 to Grade 3 and assessed them on nonverbal IQ, phonological short-term memory, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and vocabulary at the beginning of Grade
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Resilience and vulnerability of discourse-conditioned word order in heritage Spanish Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Bradley Hoot, Tania Leal
Heritage speakers—bilinguals who acquire minority languages naturalistically in infancy but are typically majority-language-dominant in adulthood—generally acquire grammars that differ systematically from the baseline input received in childhood. Yet not all areas diverge equally; understanding what characterizes divergence or resilience of a given feature is crucial to understanding heritage language
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Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence with different-script languages: Evidence from eye tracking Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jamie Taylor, Yoichi Mukai
This study compared patterns of nonselective cross-language activation in L1 and L2 visual word recognition with different-script bilinguals. The aim was to determine (1) whether lexical processing is nonselective in the L1 (as in L2), and (2) if the same cross-linguistic factors affected processing similarly in each language. To examine the time course of activation, eye movements were tracked during
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Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Alayo Tripp
In the time since the term “intersectionality” was first introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw, the term has gained a measure of widespread, even viral popularity. Increasingly, psycholinguists are citing this concept to promote work which more fully engages with the consequences of human diversity for language processing. This piece discusses the ways in which “intersectionality” has thus far been engaged
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Acknowledging language variation and its power: Keys to justice and equity in applied psycholinguistics Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Alayo Tripp, Benjamin Munson
Recent studies have demonstrated incontrovertibly that person perception influences language perception. Much of this research is predicated on the notion that social categories are stable constructs that are perceived similarly by members of various speech communities. Power differentials necessarily impact the legibility of the social performances circumscribed by macrosociological categories and
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Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Holger Hopp, Carrie N. Jackson
The present study investigates current proposals that priming is a mechanism of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilinguals by aiming to boost CLI through priming. In two cross-linguistic structural priming experiments with less-proficient adolescent (Study 1) and more highly proficient adult German-English learners (Study 2), we assess whether structural priming enhances CLI for well-formed, dispreferred
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The impact of L1 orthographic depth and L2 proficiency on mapping orthography to phonology in L2-English: an ERP investigation Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Mona Roxana Botezatu
English monolinguals (Experiment 1) and first language (L1)-dominant, Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilinguals (Experiment 2), who differed in L1 orthographic depth (shallow: Spanish; deep: Chinese) and second language (L2–English) proficiency, decided whether visually presented letter strings were English words, while behavioral and EEG measures were recorded. The spelling-sound regularity and
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Reading in kindergarten Arabic-speaking children with low linguistic skills: A longitudinal study Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan, Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad, Ravit Cohen-Mimran, Asaid Khateb
The present longitudinal study aimed to explore the connections between different linguistic profiles at kindergarten and reading achievements at first grade. These profiles are based on the two-dimensional model (Bishop & Snowling, 2004), which associates reading skills with phonological and other language abilities. This model was examined mainly in Indo-European languages but scarcely in Arabic
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The effect of memory instructions on within- and between-language false memory Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Maria Soledad Beato, Pedro B. Albuquerque, Sara Cadavid, Mar Suarez
We examined the effect of memory instructions on false memory using the Deese/Roediger–McDermott paradigm in second-language learners. Participants studied lists of words in L1 and L2 (e.g., note, sound, piano…) associatively related to a non-presented critical lure (e.g., MUSIC). In a later recognition test, critical lures appeared in the same or the other language of their lists (i.e., within- and
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Searching for the “native” speaker: A preregistered conceptual replication and extension of Reid, Trofimovich, and O’Brien (2019) Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Bianca Brown, Botagoz Tusmagambet, Valentino Rahming, Chun-Ying Tu, Michael B. DeSalvo, Seth Wiener
This study conceptually replicated and extended Reid, Trofimovich, and O’Brien (2019), who found that native English speakers could be biased positively (or negatively) relative to a control condition in terms of how they rate non-native English speech. Our internet-based study failed to replicate Reid et al. across a wider population sample of “native” speakers (n = 189). Listeners did not change
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Examining linguistic and experimenter biases through “non-native” versus “native” speech Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Rachel Elizabeth Weissler, Shiloh Drake, Ksenia Kampf, Carissa Diantoro, Kurtis Foster, Audrey Kirkpatrick, Isabel Preligera, Orion Wesson, Anna Wood, Melissa M. Baese-Berk
There is a consensus in psycholinguistic research that listening to unfamiliar speech constitutes a challenging listening situation. In this commentary, we explore the problems with the construct of non-native and ask whether using this construct in research is useful, specifically to shift the communicative burden from the language learner to the perceiver, who often occupies a position of power.
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Syntactic blocking on L2 acquisition of Mandarin Ba-construction Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Xiaoming Hou
The Mandarin Ba-construction is one of the most challenging constructions for L2 learners. The present study attributes the difficulty in developing the taxonomic representation of the Ba-construction to the interference of competing constructions. I conducted a syntactic priming experiment to investigate the representational relationship between the Ba-construction and its SVO counterpart in native
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Transmitting white monolingual Anglo-American norms: A concept analysis of “quality of language” in parent-child interactions Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Andrea A.N. MacLeod, Catrine Demers
White monolingual Anglo-American values permeate language acquisition research, which extends into public health and educational policies. “Quality of language” in parent-child interactions is often called upon to explain weaknesses in the language development of children who are racialized, experiencing poverty, or bilingual. Indeed, many early intervention approaches build on this premise by aiming
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Challenging deficit frameworks in research on heritage language bilingualism Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Eve Higby, Evelyn Gámez, Claudia Holguín Mendoza
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the study of heritage language bilinguals. However, much of the research on heritage bilingualism is fraught with deficit framing. In this article, we demonstrate how many of the assumptions that underlie this growing field of research and the way that heritage speakers are positioned as research subjects reveal ideologies that center and value monolingualism
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The internal structure of the syllable in Russian and in Hebrew: Evidence from monolingual kindergarteners Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Nadya Kogan, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Notwithstanding remarkable phonological differences, the CV syllable is the most frequent syllable type in both Russian and Hebrew. This led to the prediction that the internal structure of the CVC syllable in the two languages, as reflected in phonological awareness tasks, might be similar. The study tested phonological awareness in two groups of monolingual kindergarteners: Hebrew-speaking (N = 35)
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A position paper on researching braille in the cognitive sciences: decentering the sighted norm Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Robert Englebretson, M. Cay Holbrook, Simon Fischer-Baum
This article positions braille as a writing system worthy of study in its own right and on its own terms. We begin with a discussion of the role of braille in the lives of those who read and write it and a call for more attention to braille in the reading sciences. We then give an overview of the history and development of braille, focusing on its formal characteristics as a writing system, in order
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Bilingualism with minority languages: Why searching for unicorn language users does not move us forward Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Evelina Leivada, Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Sílvia Perpiñán
This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research. We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion of monolingual/monocultural normality and its historical origins, the stereotype of native-speakerism, the quest for testing people who fit specific profiles, the implications of the policy that urges scholars to match
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Framing second language comprehensibility: Do interlocutors’ ratings predict their perceived communicative experience? Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Charlie Nagle, Pavel Trofimovich, Oguzhan Tekin, Kim McDonough
Comprehensibility has risen to the forefront of second language (L2) speech research. To date, research has focused on identifying the linguistic, behavioral, and affective correlates of comprehensibility, how it develops over time, and how it evolves over the course of an interaction. In all these approaches, comprehensibility is the dependent measure, but comprehensibility can also be construed as
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Impairment or difference? The case of Theory of Mind abilities and pragmatic competence in the Autism Spectrum Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Eleonora Marocchini
Psycholinguistic research on pragmatics in the neurotypical population has increasingly framed pragmatic competence and related cognitive skills in terms of individual differences, co-constructed discourse, and meaning negotiation. However, research on pragmatics in the Autism Spectrum has risen from a wide and biased view of autistic communication as fundamentally compromised and autistic pragmatic
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In the native speaker’s eye: Online processing of anomalous learner syntax Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Katrine Falcon Søby, Evelyn Arko Milburn, Line Burholt Kristensen, Valentin Vulchanov, Mila Vulchanova
How do native speakers process texts with anomalous learner syntax? Second-language learners of Norwegian, and other verb-second (V2) languages, frequently place the verb in third position (e.g., *Adverbial-Subject-Verb), although it is mandatory for the verb in these languages to appear in second position (Adverbial-Verb-Subject). In an eye-tracking study, native Norwegian speakers read sentences
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Assessment of emotion word vocabulary and its contribution to reading comprehension Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Tami Sabag-Shushan, Tami Katzir, Anat Prior
The contribution of vocabulary to academic achievements in general and to reading comprehension (RC) in particular has led to the development of various tools for vocabulary assessment. However, existing assessments do not distinguish between word types, and specifically, they do not target emotion vocabulary, despite growing recognition of the importance of emotional processing to RC ability. In this
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Revisiting the traditional conceptualizations of vocabulary knowledge as predictors of dual language learners’ English reading achievement in a new destination state Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Min Hyun Oh, Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, Jin Kyoung Hwang
The unprecedented growth of Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) in new destination states (e.g., Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee) calls for better understanding of the relation between their bilingual vocabulary skills and English reading achievement. The current study focused on school-age Spanish-English DLLs (N = 60) in Tennessee and explored how various vocabulary knowledge
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MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals” Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Neil W. Kirk
While Psychology research in general has been criticized for oversampling from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) populations, Psycholinguistics has a problem with conducting a large amount of research on a relatively small number of languages. Yet even within WEIRD environments, the experiences of speakers of Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect (MIND) varieties
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Orthographic effects on L2 production and L2 proficiency in ESL learners with non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1 Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Wenxiyuan Deng, Kit Ying Chan, Ka Man Au Yeung
This study examined the role of first language (L1) transparency in intra-orthographic effects on second language (L2) pronunciation by studying L2 learners with a non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1 and an alphabetic L2. Relations between orthographic effects, phonological awareness, and L2 proficiency were examined. Fifty-four Cantonese-speaking English as a second language (ESL) learners
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The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Annick De Houwer
The pervasive monolingual bias present within many societies threatens the well-being of bilingual children and their families. Unfortunately, such bias is present in much psycholinguistic research as well. Bilingual–monolingual comparisons with methodological approaches upholding monolingual norms are not equitable to bilinguals. We do not need such comparisons to learn more about bilingual use and
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Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Rachel Klassen, Nadine Kolb, Holger Hopp, Marit Westergaard
Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between lexical (grammatical gender) and syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in L2 German. Eighty-six L1 Spanish-L2 German and thirty-six monolingual German adults completed a German self-paced reading task with noun phrases (NPs) manipulated by L1-L2 gender congruency
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The role of verbal and working memory skills in Turkish-speaking children’s morphosyntactic prediction Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Deniz Özkan, Aylin C. Küntay, Susanne Brouwer
The current study investigated the contribution of multiple verbal and working memory (WM) skills to morphosyntactic prediction in Turkish-speaking 4- to 8-year-old children. In a visual world eye-tracking experiment, 76 children were presented with verb-final sentences with nominative and accusative case markers on the initial noun (e.g., the fast rabbitnominative … the carrotaccusativeeatfuture vs
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Narrative macrostructure and microstructure profiles of bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder: differentiation from bilingual children with developmental language disorder and typical development Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Krithika Govindarajan, Johanne Paradis
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show heterogeneous language profiles beyond early language delays. Understanding the second language profiles of bilingual children with ASD is important for clinical practice in diverse societies. Accordingly, we examined the narrative abilities of bilinguals with ASD, with developmental language disorder (DLD), and with typical development (TD) to determine
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The interpretation of Spanish masculine plural NPs: Are they perceived as uniformly masculine or as a mixture of masculine and feminine? Appl. Psycholinguist. (IF 1.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Alejandro Anaya-Ramírez, John Grinstead, Melissa Nieves Rivera, David Melamed, Asela Reig-Alamillo
This article investigates whether human masculine plural noun phrases (NPs) in Spanish, which can be interpreted with an exclusively masculine or a mixed-gender meaning, are a case of balanced or unbalanced ambiguity. The results of an experiment using a sentence continuation task with oral stimuli are consistent with the claim that masculine grammatical gender biases listeners toward an exclusively