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Unger, Layla; Yim, Hyungwook; Savic, Olivera; Dennis, Simon; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Developmental Science, 2023
Recent years have seen a flourishing of Natural Language Processing models that can mimic many aspects of human language fluency. These models harness a simple, decades-old idea: It is possible to learn a lot about word meanings just from exposure to language, because words similar in meaning are used in language in similar ways. The successes of…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Language Usage, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input
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Skarnitzl, Radek; Cermák, Petr; Šturm, Pavel; Obstová, Zora; Hricsina, Jan – Second Language Research, 2022
The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker's comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Native Speakers
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Palmer, Shekeila D.; van Hooff, Johanna C.; Havelka, Jelena – Neuropsychologia, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to test the assumption of asymmetric mapping between words and concepts in bilingual memory as proposed by the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM, Kroll & Stewart, 1994). Twenty four Spanish-English bilinguals (experiment 1) and twenty English-Spanish bilinguals (experiment 2) were presented with pairs of words,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Translation, Memory, Bilingualism
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Perea, Manuel; Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Carreiras, Manuel – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
One key issue for models of bilingual memory is to what degree the semantic representation from one of the languages is shared with the other language. In the present paper, we examine whether there is an early, automatic semantic priming effect across languages for noncognates with highly proficient (Basque/Spanish) bilinguals. Experiment 1 was a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Indo European Languages, Semiotics
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Li, Li; Mo, Lei; Wang, Ruiming; Luo, Xueying; Chen, Zhe – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Previous studies have found that proficiency in a second language affects how the meanings of words are accessed. Support for this hypothesis is based on data from explicit memory tasks with bilingual participants who know two languages that are relatively similar phonologically and orthographically (e.g., Dutch-English, French-English). The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Memory, Chinese, Bilingualism