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Aina Casaponsa; M. Acebo García-Guerrero; Alejandro Martínez; Natalia Ojeda; Guillaume Thierry; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
"Taza" in Spanish refers to cups and mugs in English, whereas glass refers to different glass types in Spanish: "copa" and "vaso." It is still unclear whether such categorical distinctions induce early perceptual differences in speakers of different languages. In this study, for the first time, we report symmetrical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, English, Native Speakers
Yuyan Xue; John Williams – Language Learning, 2024
Can brief training on novel grammatical morphemes influence visual processing of nonlinguistic stimuli? If so, how deep is this effect? Here, an experimental group learned two novel morphemes highlighting the familiar concept of transitivity in sentences; a control group was exposed to the same input but with the novel morphemes used…
Descriptors: Shift Studies, Attention, Visual Perception, Grammar
Martin Maier; Rasha Abdel Rahman – Language Learning, 2024
Linguistic categories can impact visual perception. For instance, learning that two objects have different names can enhance their discriminability. Previous studies have identified a typical pattern of categorical perception, characterized by faster discrimination of stimuli from different categories, a neural mismatch response during early…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory
Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
Quinto-Pozos, David; Renee Joyce, Taylor; Sarkar, Abhra; DiLeo, Michael; Hou, Lynn – Language Learning, 2023
The comprehension of signed language requires linguistic and visual-spatial processing, such as perspective-taking for correctly interpreting the layout of a spatial scene. However, little is known about how adult second-language (L2) learners process visual-spatial constructions in a signed language that they are studying, including which angles…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Perspective Taking
Chládková, Katerina; Paillereau, Nikola – Language Learning, 2020
The young universal listener is an established concept in psycholinguistics. However, it is unclear what abilities universal perception entails and at what age it exists. This article aims to motivate rethinking about what it means to be a universal listener. Early and recent studies on infant speech acquisition are reviewed, considered in the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Listening Skills, Speech Acts, Auditory Perception
Pons, Ferran; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Ferinu, Laura; Birulés, Joan; Andreu, Llorenç – Language Learning, 2018
It has been demonstrated that children with specific language impairment (SLI) show difficulties not only with auditory but also with audiovisual speech perception. The goal of this study was to assess whether children with SLI might show reduced attention to the talker's mouth compared to their typically developing (TD) peers. An additional aim…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception, Children
Nagle, Charles L. – Language Learning, 2021
Models of L2 pronunciation learning have hypothesized that accurate speech perception promotes accurate speech production. This claim can be evaluated longitudinally by examining the extent to which changes in stop consonant perception predict changes in stop consonant production. Taking a time-sensitive view of the perception-production link,…
Descriptors: Models, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Iizuka, Takehiro; Nakatsukasa, Kimi; Braver, Aaron – Language Learning, 2020
In this study, we examined the efficacy of gestures for the acquisition of L2 segmental phonology. Despite teachers' frequent use of gestures in the classroom to teach pronunciation, the field lacks empirical support for this practice. We attempted to fill this gap by investigating the effects of handclapping on the development of L2 Japanese…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Instruction, Phonology, Pronunciation
Noguchi, Masaki; Hudson Kam, Carla L. – Language Learning, 2018
In human languages, different speech sounds can be contextual variants of a single phoneme, called allophones. Learning which sounds are allophones is an integral part of the acquisition of phonemes. Whether given sounds are separate phonemes or allophones in a listener's language affects speech perception. Listeners tend to be less sensitive to…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Phonemes, Acoustics
Efthymia C. Kapnoula; Arthur G. Samuel – Language Learning, 2024
Some listeners exhibit higher sensitivity to subphonemic acoustic differences (i.e., higher speech gradiency). Here, we asked whether higher gradiency in a listener's first language (L1) facilitates foreign language learning and explored the possible sources of individual differences in L1 gradiency. To address these questions, we tested 164…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
Nagle, Charles L. – Language Learning, 2018
Most studies on the perception-production link have assumed a synchronous relationship according to which gains in perception transfer to production rapidly and efficiently. However, time-lagged and asymptotic relationships are also possible, where perception would guide production at a later stage or production would improve only once perception…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Time, Longitudinal Studies
Chládková, Katerina; Šimácková, Šárka – Language Learning, 2021
Distributional learning is typically understood as (unattended) tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Native Language, Greek, Slavic Languages
Méary, David; Jaggie, Carole; Pascalis, Olivier – Language Learning, 2018
Visual and auditory information jointly contribute to face categorization processes in humans, and gender is a socially relevant multisensory category specified by faces and voices that is detected early in infancy. We used an eye tracker to study how gender coherence in audio and visual modalities influence face scanning in 9- to 12-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Gender Differences, Adults
Moranski, Kara; Zalbidea, Janire – Language Learning, 2022
This study employed a multisite design to investigate the differential impact of deductive and guided inductive instruction for second language (L2) grammar development in ecologically valid classroom contexts. Students (n = 138) from eight intact third-year L2 Spanish classes in three public high schools in the United States received deductive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking