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Vogelzang, Margreet; Thiel, Christiane M.; Rosemann, Stephanie; Rieger, Jochem W.; Ruigendijk, Esther – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Adults with mild-to-moderate age-related hearing loss typically exhibit issues with speech understanding, but their processing of syntactically complex sentences is not well understood. We test the hypothesis that listeners with hearing loss' difficulties with comprehension and processing of syntactically complex sentences are due to the…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Syntax, Sentences, Language Processing
Kamide, Yuki; Kukona, Anuenue – Cognitive Science, 2018
We investigated the influence of globally ungrammatical local syntactic constraints on sentence comprehension, as well as the corresponding activation of global and local representations. In Experiment 1, participants viewed visual scenes with objects like a carousel and motorbike while hearing sentences with noun phrase (NP) or verb phrase (VP)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Sentences, Listening Comprehension
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
Suzuki, Shungo; Kormos, Judit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes to utterance fluency (UF) at the level of constructs. A total of 128 Japanese-speaking learners of English completed four speaking tasks--argumentative task, picture narrative task, reading-to-speaking task, and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task--and a battery…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Task Analysis
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
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
Grant, Angela M.; Brisson-McKenna, Maude; Phillips, Natalie A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Most language experiences take place at the level of multiple sentences. However, previous studies of second language (L2) comprehension have typically focused on lexical- and sentence-level processing. Our study addresses this gap by examining auditory discourse comprehension in 32 English/French bilinguals. We tested the prediction of the noisy…
Descriptors: Semantics, Physiology, Bilingualism, Short Term Memory
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
Wannagat, Wienke; Waizenegger, Gesine; Hauf, Juliane; Nieding, Gerhild – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This study investigated the effects of auditory and audiovisual text presentation on the three levels of mental representations assumed in theories of discourse processing. A sample of 106 children aged 7, 9, and 11 years listened to 16 short narrative texts, 8 of which were accompanied by a series of pictures illustrating the content.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Memory, Models
Oh, Eunjou – Reading Psychology, 2016
The present study investigated the relative contributions of vocabulary knowledge, grammar knowledge, and processing speed to second language listening and reading comprehension. Seventy-five Korean university students participated in the study. Results showed the three tested components had a significant portion of shared variance in explaining…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Predictor Variables, Language Processing, Listening Comprehension
Ferrill, Michelle; Love, Tracy; Walenski, Matthew; Shapiro, Lewis P. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: To investigate the time-course of processing of lexical items in auditorily presented canonical (subject-verb-object) constructions in young, neurologically unimpaired control participants and participants with left-hemisphere damage and agrammatic aphasia. Method: A cross modal picture priming (CMPP) paradigm was used to test 114 control…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Sentences
Florit, Elena; Roch, Maja; Levorato, M. Chiara – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Two studies explored the relation between listening comprehension of text and listening comprehension of sentences in preschoolers aged 4 to 5 years, 11 months. The first study analyzed this relationship taking into account the role of lower level components, namely, word knowledge and verbal working memory, as possible mediators. These components…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Preschool Children, Sentences, Short Term Memory
Shook, Anthony; Goldrick, Matthew; Engstler, Caroline; Marian, Viorica – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
When bilinguals process written language, they show delays in accessing lexical items relative to monolinguals. The present study investigated whether this effect extended to spoken language comprehension, examining the processing of sentences with either low or high semantic constraint in both first and second languages. English-German…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Eye Movements
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
Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Trueswell, John C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Twenty-five children with specific language impairment (SLI; age 5 years, 3 months [5;3]-8;2), 50 typically developing children (3;3-8;2), and 31 normal adults participated in three eye-tracking experiments of spoken language comprehension that were designed to investigate the use of verb information during real-time sentence comprehension in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Semantics, Language Impairments, Speech