It is widely accepted that developmental dyslexia results from some sort of phonological deficit. Yet, it can be argued that phonological representations and their processing have …
Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …
C Wilson - Cognitive science, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A …
Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …
Previous research by Dupoux et al.[Dupoux, E., Pallier, C., Sebastián, N., & Mehler, J.(1997). A destressing “deafness” in French? Journal of Memory Language 36, 406–421; Dupoux, E …
Previous research has shown that native speakers of French, as opposed to those of Spanish, exhibit stress' deafness', ie have difficulties distinguishing stress contrasts. In …
F Ramus, J Mehler - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
This paper proposes a new experimental paradigm to explore the discriminability of languages, a question which is crucial to the child born in a bilingual environment. This …
David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …
I Berent, D Steriade, T Lennertz, V Vaknin - Cognition, 2007 - Elsevier
Are speakers equipped with preferences concerning grammatical structures that are absent in their language? We examine this question by investigating the sensitivity of English …