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Hui, Bronson – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
I investigated the trajectory of processing variability, as measured by coefficient of variation (CV), using an intentional word learning experiment and reanalyzing published eye-tracking data of an incidental word learning study (Elgort et al., 2018). In the word learning experiment, native English speakers (N = 35) studied Swahili-English word…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Eye Movements
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Caldwell-Harris, Catherine L.; Lancaster, Alia; Ladd, D. Robert; Dediu, Dan; Christiansen, Morten H. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
This study examined whether musical training, ethnicity, and experience with a natural tone language influenced sensitivity to tone while listening to an artificial tone language. The language was designed with three tones, modeled after level-tone African languages. Participants listened to a 15-min random concatenation of six 3-syllable words.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Music Education, Ethnicity, Racial Differences