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Lakens, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Previous research has shown that words presented on metaphor congruent locations (e.g., positive words "up" on the screen and negative words "down" on the screen) are categorized faster than words presented on metaphor incongruent locations (e.g., positive words "down" and negative words "up"). These…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Perception, Congruence (Psychology), Spatial Ability
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van Daal, John; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Balkom, Hans – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
Most, if not all, of the studies of subtypes of children with language impairments have been conducted with English-speaking children. The possibility and validity of identified subtypes for non-English clinical populations are, as yet, unknown. This study was designed to provide cross-linguistic evidence of language subtypes. A broad battery of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Psychometrics, Speech
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McQueen, James M.; Norris, Dennis; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2006
The speech perception system must be flexible in responding to the variability in speech sounds caused by differences among speakers and by language change over the lifespan of the listener. Indeed, listeners use lexical knowledge to retune perception of novel speech (Norris, McQueen, & Cutler, 2003). In that study, Dutch listeners made…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Language Variation, Auditory Perception, Word Recognition