Successful speech perception requires that listeners map the acoustic signal to linguistic categories. These mappings are not only probabilistic, but change depending on the …
Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …
A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …
L Ortega - The multilingual turn, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
criticisms convincing and devastating. I concur that the monolingual bias has become unsustainable for the field of SLA, as for any other field that aspires to understand multiple …
The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …
When we read or listen to language, we are faced with the challenge of inferring intended messages from noisy input. This challenge is exacerbated by considerable variability …
Speakers show a remarkable tendency to align their productions with their interlocutors'. Focusing on sentence production, we investigate the cognitive systems underlying such …
A Clark - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …
“Five Graces Group”, C Beckner, R Blythe… - Language …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with domain‐general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of language …