Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English (with co-speech gesture): The role of modality in referring to non-nameable objects [0.03%]
美国手语和英语（配合口哨手势）的指示策略：论语调在指称不可命名对象的作用
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr,Brenda Nicodemus,Jennifer Petrich et al.
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr et al.
American Sign Language (ASL) and English differ in linguistic resources available to express visual-spatial information. In a referential communication task, we examined the effect of language modality on the creation and mutual acceptance ...
Vocabulary size and Native Speaker self-identification influence flexibility in linguistic prediction among adult bilinguals [0.03%]
词量和以母语者自居身份影响成人双语者的语言预测的灵活性
Ryan Peters,Theres Grüter,Arielle Borovsky
Ryan Peters
When language users predict upcoming speech, they generate pluralistic expectations, weighted by likelihood (Kuperberg & Jaeger, 2016). Many variables influence the prediction of highly-likely sentential outcomes, but less is known regardin...
Giang Pham,Kerry Danahy Ebert
Giang Pham
This longitudinal study used sentence interpretation tasks to consider growth in language processing among school-aged children learning Vietnamese and English. Thirty-two children participated yearly over three time points. Children were a...
Sentence interpretation by typically developing Vietnamese-English bilingual children [0.03%]
典型发展的越南语-英语双语儿童的句子理解
Giang Pham,Kathryn Kohnert
Giang Pham
We examined developing bilinguals' use of animacy and word order cues during sentence interpretation tasks administered in each of their languages. Participants were 6- to 8-year-old children who learned Vietnamese as a first language and E...
A Bilingual-Monolingual Comparison of Young Children's Vocabulary Size: Evidence from Comprehension and Production [0.03%]
来自理解力和表达力的证据：双语儿童和单语儿童词汇量的比较研究
Annick De Houwer,Marc H Bornstein,Diane L Putnick
Annick De Houwer
It is often assumed that young bilinguals are lexically delayed in comparison to monolinguals. A comprehensive comparison of comprehension and production vocabulary in 31 firstborn bilingual and 30 matched monolingual children fails to find...
Effects of concurrent task demands on language planning in fluent children and adults [0.03%]
流畅儿童和成人语言计划的并发任务要求效应
Jayanthi Sasisekaran,Cara Donohue
Jayanthi Sasisekaran
Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate how children and adults allocate cognitive resources to performing segmental encoding and monitoring in a dual task paradigm and the response patterns of the primar...
James Bartolotti,Viorica Marian
James Bartolotti
Many adults struggle with second language acquisition, but learn new native-language words relatively easily. We investigated the role of sublexical native-language patterns on novel word acquisition. Twenty English monolinguals learned 48 ...
Beverly A Goldfield,Christina Gencarella,Kevin Fornari
Beverly A Goldfield
The Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL) task was developed to assess comprehension in infants and toddlers. We extend this methodology to examine word comprehension in preschool children using two measures: proportion of looking time to t...
Franzo Law nd,Tristan Mahr,Alissa Schneeberg et al.
Franzo Law nd et al.
Recognizing familiar words quickly and accurately facilitates learning new words, as well as other aspects of language acquisition. This study used the visual world paradigm with semantic and phonological competitors to study lexical proces...
W Todd Maddox,Seth Koslov,Han-Gyol Yi et al.
W Todd Maddox et al.
Real-world speech learning often occurs in high pressure situations such as trying to communicate in a foreign country. However, the impact of pressure on speech learning success is largely unexplored. In this study, adult, native speakers ...