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Chen, Zhengrong; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
It is common to have good declarative but poor procedural knowledge of a foreign language, especially for classroom learners. To study this gap in a constrained manner, we asked Chinese learners of English to repeat, correct and produce indirect speech. The indirect speech construction was selected in the present study because it is known to be a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Temperley, David – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The regularity of stress patterns in a language depends on "distributional stress regularity", which arises from the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and "durational stress regularity", which arises from the timing of syllables. Here we focus on distributional regularity, which depends on three factors. "Lexical stress patterning"…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Language Patterns
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Tabossi, Patrizia; Fanari, Rachele; Wolf, Kinou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
This study investigates recognition of spoken idioms occurring in neutral contexts. Experiment 1 showed that both predictable and non-predictable idiom meanings are available at string offset. Yet, only predictable idiom meanings are active halfway through a string and remain active after the string's literal conclusion. Experiment 2 showed that…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Word Recognition, Oral Language, Figurative Language
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Slowiaczek, Louisa M.; Soltano, Emily G.; Bernstein, Hilary L. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The influence of lexical stress and/or metrical stress on spoken word recognition was examined. Two experiments were designed to determine whether response times in lexical decision or shadowing tasks are influenced when primes and targets share lexical stress patterns (JUVenile-BIBlical [Syllables printed in capital letters indicate those…
Descriptors: Cues, Word Recognition, Memory, Phonology