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Angelica Buerkin-Salgado – ProQuest LLC, 2023
How do infants learn about the formal properties of language using only cues they can access in speech? And what intuitions do they bring to the learning problem? Chapter 2: To explore whether current notions of statistically-based language learning could successfully scale to infants' linguistic experiences "in the wild", we implemented…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension
Rönnberg, Jerker; Holmer, Emil; Rudner, Mary – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the subtle balancing act between language input and prediction (cognitive priming of future input) to achieve understanding of communicated content. When understanding fails, reconstructive post-diction is initiated. Three memory systems play important roles: working memory (WM), episodic…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Hearing Impairments
Danielle Kristine Fahey – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Items in the mental lexicon have three storage and processing strata, the concept, lemma, and lexeme, which equate to semantic, syntactic and phonological information. Lexical items relate to each other at each stratum. Bilingual lexicons, which contain items from all languages, may contain cognates, items sharing concepts and with overlapping…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Psycholinguistics
Carney, Nathaniel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Current second language (L2) listening research has lacked detailed accounts of L2 listeners' difficulties comprehending texts comprising orthographically known lexis. In the current study, 15 first language (L1) Japanese English language learners of three English proficiency levels listened to sentences and a narrative text. A two-task diagnostic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
Ling, Wenyi; Grüter, Theres – Second Language Research, 2022
Successful listening in a second language (L2) involves learning to identify the relevant acoustic-phonetic dimensions that differentiate between words in the L2, and then use these cues to access lexical representations during real-time comprehension. This is a particularly challenging goal to achieve when the relevant acoustic-phonetic…
Descriptors: Intonation, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Word Recognition
Durand-López, Ezequiel M. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
Bilinguals recognize words with shared morphology and phonology cross-linguistically (i.e., cognates) faster than words that do not have these characteristics. Moreover, higher phonological overlap in cognates enhances the effects, which suggests that phonology eases word recognition. However, it is currently unclear whether words compete purely…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
Kim, Jeong-eun; Cho, Yejin; Cho, Youngsun; Hong, Yeonjung; Kim, Seohyun; Nam, Hosung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study examines the effects of asymmetrical mappings of L2 sounds to L1 sounds on real-time processing of L2 phonology. L1-Korean participants completed a self-paced listening (SPL) task paired with a picture verification (PV) task, in which an English sentence was presented word by word along with a picture that matched or mismatched the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Korean
Cui, Gang; Wang, Yuemin; Zhong, Xiaoyun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study aims to investigate the effect of suprasegmental phonological training on connected-text reading comprehension of Chinese university students with different English reading proficiency levels. A sample of 160 freshmen was recruited and randomly divided into experimental and control groups, and the experimental group was given a 12-week…
Descriptors: Phonology, Suprasegmentals, Reading Comprehension, College Students
Han, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation study explored the feasibility of using authenticated spoken texts to test L2 Chinese listening comprehension. The spoken texts used in the study were created using an "authenticating" technique, in which scripted spoken Chinese texts were infused with characteristics of real-world, unscripted spoken Chinese. In the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension Tests, Chinese
Murdoch, Amy; Warburg, Rosanne; Corbo, Elizabeth; Strickler, Wendy – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
A key to reducing reading difficulty, particularly for children living in poverty, is to provide high quality, explicit, and well-planned instruction from the start of a child's school career. Preschools that provide quality language, literacy, and content instruction have produced promising positive effects on children's later academic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
Stringer, Louise; Iverson, Paul – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The intelligibility of an accent strongly depends on the specific talker-listener pairing. To explore the causes of this phenomenon, we investigated the relationship between acoustic-phonetic similarity and accent intelligibility across native (1st language) and nonnative (2nd language) talker-listener pairings. We also used online…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Native Language, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
von Wertz, Sloane Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Languages generally use musical pitch variation of the voice as part of their sound systems (Maddieson, 2011)--pitch variations that can be somewhat reminiscent of music. Music ability and/or training may influence language processing (e.g., Bidelman et al., 2011; Delogue et al., 2010). In particular, studies have concluded that there may be a…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Tone Languages, Native Speakers
Dixon, Chris; Thomson, Jenny; Fricke, Silke – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Children learning English as an additional language (EAL) are a growing population of learners in English primary schools. These children begin school with differing levels of English language proficiency and tend to underperform in relation to their non-EAL peers on measures of English oral language and reading. However, little work has examined…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, Language Proficiency
Bergelson, Elika; Swingley, Daniel – Child Development, 2018
To understand spoken words, listeners must appropriately interpret co-occurring talker characteristics and speech sound content. This ability was tested in 6- to 14-months-olds by measuring their looking to named food and body part images. In the "new talker" condition (n = 90), pictures were named by an unfamiliar voice; in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Processing, Infant Behavior, Food
Chrabaszcz, Anna; Gor, Kira – Language Learning, 2014
In order to comprehend speech, listeners have to combine low-level phonetic information about the incoming auditory signal with higher-order contextual information to make a lexical selection. This requires stable phonological categories and unambiguous representations of words in the mental lexicon. Unlike native speakers, second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Phonology