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 …

Analysing data from the psycholinguistic visual-world paradigm: Comparison of different analysis methods

A Ito, P Knoeferle - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we discuss key characteristics and typical experimental designs of the visual-
world paradigm and compare different methods of analysing eye-movement data. We …

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 …

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 …

Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and …

B McMurray, KS Baxelbaum, S Colby… - Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Classic psycholinguistics seeks universal language mechanisms for all people,
emphasizing the “modal” listener: hearing, neurotypical, monolingual, and young adults …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the temporal dynamics of spoken word and nonword processing from EEG

B McMurray, MCE Sarrett, S Chiu, AK Black, A Wang… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficiency of spoken word recognition is essential for real-time communication. There is
consensus that this efficiency relies on an implicit process of activating multiple word …

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 …

Carrot or parrot? An eye-tracking study on spoken word recognition in a language attrition context

C Soto, MS Schmid - The Language Learning Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the extensive research on bilingual development, our understanding of how lexical
competition unfolds in the bilingual mind remains limited. Previous studies have …

The development of real-time spoken and word recognition derives from changes in ability, not maturation

E Kutlu, J Klein-Packard, C Jeppsen, JB Tomblin… - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
In typical adults, recognizing both spoken and written words is thought to be served by a
process of competition between candidates in the lexicon. In recent years, work has used …