Do Slovak–German bilinguals apply native Slovak phonological and lexical knowledge
when segmenting German speech? When Slovaks listen to their native language …

Varying degrees of plasticity in different subsystems of language have been demonstrated
by studies showing that some aspects of language are processed similarly by native …

Monolingual French speakers employ a syllable-based procedure in speech segmentation;
monolingual English speakers use a stress-based segmentation procedure and do not use …

Word segmentation in L2 is not as optimal as in L1 because many, though not all, cues to
signal word boundaries appear to be largely language-specific. Native English listeners use …

Using cross-modal form priming, we compared the use of stress and lexicality in the
segmentation of spoken English by native English speakers (L1) and by native Hungarian …

In this study, we examined whether phonotactic constraints of the first language affect
speech processing by Japanese learners of English and whether their proficiency of the …

The possible-word constraint (PWC; Norris, McQueen, Cutler, & Butterfield, 1997) has been
proposed as a language-universal segmentation principle: Lexical candidates are …

This study investigates how phonological and phonetic aspects of the native-language (L1)
intonation modulate the use of tonal cues in second-language (L2) speech segmentation …

The subjects' ability to segment foreign speech was examined. Naturalness judgments
regarding three syntactically defined pauses [between constituents (noun and verb …

Any on-line processing that takes place while an utterance is unfolding is extremely
tentative, with early-formed hypotheses having to be revised as the utterance proceeds. The …