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Grosvald, Michael; Corina, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study we explore listeners' sensitivity to vowel to vowel (VV) coarticulation, using both event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral methodologies. The stimuli used were vowels "colored" by the coarticulatory influence of other vowels across one, three or five intervening segments. The paradigm used in the ERP portion of the study was…
Descriptors: Evidence, Auditory Stimuli, Vowels, Cognitive Processes
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Dich, Nadya – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that the extent to which orthography affects spoken word recognition in literate adults is related to their spelling proficiency. The study included two components: an auditory lexical decision task manipulating orthographic consistency of the stimuli and a spelling test. The results replicated…
Descriptors: Spelling, Word Recognition, Individual Differences, Speech Communication
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Hardison, Debra M.; Saigo, Miki Motohashi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study explored the second language perceptual accuracy of Japanese geminates (moraic units) by English-speaking learners at three proficiency levels: beginner (28), low-intermediate (42), and advanced (15). Stimuli included singleton and geminate /t/, /k/, /s/ followed by /a/ or /u/ produced by a native speaker in isolated words and carrier…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, English
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Montgomery, James W.; Evans, Julia L.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
We investigated the relation of two dimensions of attentional functioning (sustained auditory attention and resource capacity/allocation) and complex sentence comprehension of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and a group of typically developing (TD) children matched for age. Twenty-six school-age children with SLI and 26 TD peers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Impairments, Children, Auditory Perception