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

Abstract Language has the power to shape cognition, behavior, and even the form and
function of the brain. Technological and scientific developments have recently yielded an …

According to the 2020 US Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5
in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Some bilinguals become …

This study examines second (L2) and third (L3) language learners' pitch perception. We test
the hypothesis that a listener's discrimination of and sensitivity (d') to Japanese pitch accent …

Changing the F0-contour of English words does not change their lexical meaning. However,
it changes the meaning in tonal languages such as Mandarin. Given this important …

Much of the literature surrounding bilingual spoken word recognition is based on bilinguals
of non-tonal languages. In the Mandarin spoken word recognition literature, lexical tones are …

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism presents an introduction to the neural bases
and cognitive processes of the bilingual brain. It covers foundational knowledge required for …

Bilinguals were documented to access their native or first language (L1) during
comprehension of their second languages (L2). However, it is uncertain whether they can …

Aims: Previous studies have documented that consonants contribute more to lexically
related processes than vowels in English, whereas an opposite pattern occurs in Mandarin …

Swedish makes use of tonal accents (Accents 1 and 2) to contrast words, but the functional
load is very low, with some regional dialects not even exhibiting the contrast. In particular …