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

There is increasing evidence to indicate that sleep plays a role in language acquisition and
consolidation; however, there has been substantial variability in methodological approaches …

Lip-reading is crucial for understanding speech in challenging conditions. But how the brain
extracts meaning from, silent, visual speech is still under debate. Lip-reading in silence …

When a novel word is learned, its memory representation is thought to undergo a process of
consolidation and integration. In this study, we tested whether the neural representations of …

Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough
introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP). The study of SLP seeks to …

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 …

We studied the initial acquisition and overnight consolidation of new spoken words that
resemble words in the native language (L1) or in an unfamiliar, non-native language (L2) …

Word learning is a crucial aspect of human development that depends on the formation and
consolidation of novel memory traces. In this paper, we critically review the behavioural …

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 …

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 …