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Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production
(Cognitive Science, 2016)
Bilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. This
study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large-scale picture-naming study conducted in Spanish.
We explored how ...
Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes
(Neuropsychologia, 2016)
Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory ...
World knowledge integration during second language comprehension
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
In order to study the difficulties experienced during sentence comprehension in a foreign language
(L2), we investigated semantic and world knowledge information retrieval in L2 comprehenders.
Event-related potentials ...
Holiday or vacation? The processing of variation in vocabulary across dialects
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2016)
Native speakers with different linguistic backgrounds differ in their usage of language, and
particularly in their vocabulary. For instance, British natives would use the word "holiday" when
American natives would prefer ...
Hierarchical levels of representation in language prediction: The influence of first language acquisition in highly proficient bilinguals
(Cognition, 2017)
Language comprehension is largely supported by predictive mechanisms that account for the ease and
speed with which communication unfolds. Both native and proficient non-native speakers can efficiently
handle contextual ...
Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEGevidence
(Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017)
Studies on adults suggest that reading-induced brain changes might not be limited to linguistic processes. It is still unclear whether these results can be generalized to reading development. The present study shows to ...
The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language
(Scientific Reports, 2020)
Vocabulary learning occurs throughout the lifespan, often implicitly. For foreign language learners, this is particularly challenging as they must acquire a large number of new words with little exposure. In the present ...
The presence of a foreign accent introduces lexical integration difficulties during late semantic processing
(Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2021)
Previous research suggests that native listeners may be more tolerant to syntactic errors when they
are produced in a foreign accent. However, studies investigating this topic within the semantic
domain remain conflicting. ...
Inhibitory and facilitatory effects of phonological and orthographic similarity on L2 word recognition across modalities in bilinguals
(Scientific Reports, 2021)
Language perception studies on bilinguals often show that words that share form and meaning across languages (cognates) are easier to process than words that share only meaning. This facilitatory phenomenon is known as the ...
Orthography affects L1 and L2 speech perception but not production in early bilinguals
(Cambridge, 2022)
Orthography plays a crucial role in L2 learning, which generally relies on both oral and
written input. We examine whether incongruencies between L1 and L2 grapheme-phoneme
correspondences influence bilingual speech ...