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Heikkilä, Jenni; Tiippana, Kaisa; Loberg, Otto; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Language Learning, 2018
Seeing articulatory gestures enhances speech perception. Perception of auditory speech can even be changed by incongruent visual gestures, which is known as the McGurk effect (e.g., dubbing a voice saying /mi/ onto a face articulating /ni/, observers often hear /ni/). In children, the McGurk effect is weaker than in adults, but no previous…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audiovisual Aids, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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de Zeeuw, Marlies; Verhoeven, Ludo; Schreuder, Robert – Language Learning, 2012
This study examined to what extent young second language (L2) learners showed morphological family size effects in L2 word recognition and whether the effects were grade-level related. Turkish-Dutch bilingual children (L2) and Dutch (first language, L1) children from second, fourth, and sixth grade performed a Dutch lexical decision task on words…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition