Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of
American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected …

Performance-based studies on the psychological nature of linguistic competence can
conceal significant differences in the brain processes that underlie native versus nonnative …

Publisher Summary Eye movements have become a widely used response measure for
studying spoken language processing in both adults and children, in situations where …

For a long time, bilingualism was believed to involve the requirement of two separate word
processing systems that function independently and that can be accessed selectively. These …

The role of cross-linguistic phonological overlap in native and non-native word recognition
was examined using an auditory lexical decision task. The degree of phonological overlap …

Simultaneous acquisition of multiple languages to a native level of fluency is common in
many areas of the world. This ability must be represented in any cognitive mechanisms used …

CHAPTER 1 Language is all around us. Most of us spend almost every waking hour doing
something that is language related: talking, listening, reading, memorizing a groceries list …

University of Alberta Page 1 University of Alberta Lexical and Phonotactic Cues to Speech
Segmentation in a Second Language by Manuel Sinor A thesis submitted to the Faculty of …

We describe three independent projects with novel applications of eye movement
technology. In each, we have sought to expand the range of stimuli and tasks typically used …

Traditional theories of cognition assume that motor action is executed in an all-or-none
fashion, and has little importance for understanding cognitive representation and …