Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity

EC Kapnoula, M Jevtović… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes
intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of …

The slow development of real-time processing: Spoken-word recognition as a crucible for new thinking about language acquisition and language disorders

B McMurray, KS Apfelbaum… - Current Directions in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Words are fundamental to language, linking sound, articulation, and spelling to meaning
and syntax; and lexical deficits are core to communicative disorders. Work in language …

Delayed lexical access and cascading effects on spreading semantic activation during spoken word recognition in children with hearing aids and cochlear implants …

KE Klein, EA Walker, B McMurray - Ear and hearing, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of real-time lexical
access, including lexical competition among phonologically similar words, and spreading …

[HTML][HTML] Idiosyncratic use of bottom-up and top-down information leads to differences in speech perception flexibility: Converging evidence from ERPs and eye …

EC Kapnoula, B McMurray - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Listeners generally categorize speech sounds in a gradient manner. However, recent work,
using a visual analogue scaling (VAS) task, suggests that some listeners show more …

The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm

KS Apfelbaum, J Klein-Packard, B McMurray - Journal of memory and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A common critique of the Visual World Paradigm (VWP) in psycholinguistic studies is that
what is designed as a measure of language processes is meaningfully altered by the visual …

What causes lingering misinterpretations of garden-path sentences: Incorrect syntactic representations or fallible memory processes?

Y Huang, F Ferreira - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
A key question in research on sentence processing concerns how sentences that have been
misanalyzed are reinterpreted, and to what extent the parser's attempts at revision are …

Efficiency of spoken word recognition slows across the adult lifespan

SE Colby, B McMurray - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Spoken word recognition is a critical hub during language processing, linking hearing and
perception to meaning and syntax. Words must be recognized quickly and efficiently as …

Learning and integration of new word-forms: Consolidation, pruning, and the emergence of automaticity

B McMurray, EC Kapnoula… - Speech perception and …, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Developmental changes in phonological and semantic priming effects in Spanish-speaking toddlers.

N Arias-Trejo, AQ Angulo-Chavira… - Developmental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Research on the early lexical-semantic system has described how toddlers organize word
representations based on semantic and phonological features. This study is a longitudinal …

Sources of variation in second and native language speaking proficiency among college-aged second language learners

MR Botezatu, T Guo, JF Kroll, S Peterson… - Studies in Second …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We evaluated external and internal sources of variation in second language (L2) and native
language (L1) proficiency among college students. One hundred and twelve native-English …