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

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 …

Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the dynamics of real-time lexical
access, including lexical competition among phonologically similar words, and spreading …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Learning a new word appears simple. One must learn the phonological form of the word (the
word-form), the concept to which it refers, and an association between them. However …

Research on the early lexical-semantic system has described how toddlers organize word
representations based on semantic and phonological features. This study is a longitudinal …

We evaluated external and internal sources of variation in second language (L2) and native
language (L1) proficiency among college students. One hundred and twelve native-English …