Researchers agree that comprehenders regularly predict upcoming language, but they do
not always agree on what prediction is (and how to differentiate it from integration) or what …

Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

My goal in writing this book has been to convey the principles and issues of
psycholinguistics in a straightforward and accessible manner. The field, although principally …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

This study demonstrates that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of
speech sounds. Dutch listeners first made lexical decisions on Dutch words and nonwords …

Previous work has shown a back-propagation network with recurrent connections can
successfully model many aspects of human spoken word recognition (Norris, 1988, 1990 …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

For some 30 years, intelligibility has been recognized as an appropriate goal for
pronunciation instruction, yet remarkably little is known about the factors that make a …

This chapter presents an extended formulation of the Competition Model. The extended
model is designed to account for a large range of phenomena in first and second language …

This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do
listeners extract the most fundamental linguistic elements—consonants and vowels, or the …