Our decision to believe what another person says can be influenced by vocally expressed
confidence in speech and by whether the speaker–listener are members of the same social …

We analyzed the effects of bilingualism and age on executive function. We examined these
variables along a continuum, as opposed to dichotomizing them. We investigated the impact …

Talking is an immediate and rich form of communication. Through vocal signals we provide
information about ourselves and our social background. In six empirical articles, one review …

The relationship between second language (L2) comprehensibility and pragmatics is
explored in two experiments involving instruction of speech acts to learners enrolled in a …

Twenty-five L1 Nepali speaking participants living in Trondheim, Norway who spoke English
as L2 and Norwegian as L3 (late adult learners) participated in this study. Participants' L2 …

Seventy public school teenage students (female= 34) from Kathmandu participated in
language comprehension, language production and cognitive control tasks. The participants …

Previous studies have shown that learners' individual differences (eg, motivation, age) can
impact second language learners' pronunciation. This study focused on one individual …

Phonological awareness has been defined as the speaker's sensitivity to the phonological
characteristics of a language. The present study is aimed at exploring the relationship …

Mouse-tracking recording techniques are becoming very attractive in experimental
psychology. They provide an effective means of enhancing the measurement of some real …

The goal of this study was to determine how noise affects listeners' subjective judgments of
foreign-accented speech and how those judgments relate to the intelligibility of foreign …