Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes
intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of …

Lexical competition is a hallmark of proficient, automatic word recognition. Previous
research suggests that there is a delay before a new spoken word becomes engaged in this …

Eight to 11% of children have a clinical disorder in oral language (Developmental Language
Disorder, DLD). Language deficits in DLD can affect all levels of language and persist …

In this article, I review the evidence on the involvement of sleep and consolidation in word
learning and processing during language comprehension, focusing on implications for …

Second language (L2) learners must not only acquire L2 knowledge (ie vocabulary and
grammar), but they must also rapidly access this knowledge. In monolinguals, efficient …

Learning a new word appears simple. One must learn the phonological form of the word (the
word-form), the concept to which it refers, and an association between them. However …

Purpose: To describe the word-learning problems characteristic of developmental language
impairment (LI). Method: College students with LI (n= 39) or normal language development …

The speech signal carries both linguistic and non-linguistic information (eg, a talker's voice
qualities; referred to as indexical information). There is evidence that indexical information …

Abstract Language learning is generally described as a problem of acquiring new
information (eg, new words). However, equally important are changes in how the system …

While it has been proposed that new words are encoded in a qualitatively different way from
established words–in episodic rather than semantic memory—such accounts are …