The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals

Desroches, Amy S.; Friesen, Deanna C.; Teles, Matthew; Korade, Chloe A.; Forest, Evan W.

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“…There continues to be a great deal of research in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psycholinguistics on the recognition of isolated “wordforms” (phonological or orthographic) and accessing the meanings of single words when they are not presented in sentential or discourse contexts. Isolated spoken word recognition continues to be a major area of research, with the development of large performance databases (Goh, Yap, & Chee, 2020), and work focused on isolated spoken words is critical in current research on language development and disorders (Apfelbaum, Goodwin, Blomquist, & McMurray, 2023; Giovannone & Theodore, 2021; McMurray, Apfelbaum, & Tomblin, 2022), language and cognitive decline in aging (Nitsan, Banai, & Ben‐David, 2022), and unlocking the organization of bilingual lexical knowledge and processing (Desroches, Friesen, Teles, Korade, & Forest, 2022). While many questions remain to be answered about form recognition, there is also active research on semantic processing in isolated words (Nenadić, Podlubny, Schmidtke, Kelley, & Tucker, 2022).…”

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Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

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Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are a primary method for distilling semantic information from corpora. However, a key question remains: What types of semantic relations among words do DSMs detect? Prior work typically has addressed this question using limited human data that are restricted to semantic similarity and/or general semantic relatedness. We tested eight DSMs that are popular in current cognitive and psycholinguistic research (positive pointwise mutual information; global vectors; and three variations each of Skip‐gram and continuous bag of words (CBOW) using word, context, and mean embeddings) on a theoretically motivated, rich set of semantic relations involving words from multiple syntactic classes and spanning the abstract–concrete continuum (19 sets of ratings). We found that, overall, the DSMs are best at capturing overall semantic similarity and also can capture verb–noun thematic role relations and noun–noun event‐based relations that play important roles in sentence comprehension. Interestingly, Skip‐gram and CBOW performed the best in terms of capturing similarity, whereas GloVe dominated the thematic role and event‐based relations. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our results, make recommendations for users of these models, and demonstrate significant differences in model performance on event‐based relations.

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Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

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Within- and cross-modal translation priming: An event-related potential investigation with Chinese-English bilinguals

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2025

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Segmenting Speech: The Role of Resyllabification in Spanish Phonology

Andreu Rascón

2024

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Humans segment speech naturally based on the transitional probabilities between linguistic elements. For bilingual speakers navigating between a first (L1) and a second language (L2), L1 knowledge can influence their perception, leading to transfer effects based on phonological similarities or differences. Specifically, in Spanish, resyllabification occurs when consonants at the end of a syllable or word boundary are repositioned as the onset of the subsequent syllable. While the process can lead to ambiguities in perception, current academic discussions debate the duration of canonical and resyllabified productions. However, the role of bilingualism in the visual perception of syllable and word segmentation remains unknown to date. The present study explores the use of bilingual skills in the perception of articulatory movements and visual cues in speech perception, addressing the gap in the literature regarding the visibility of syllable pauses in lipreading. The participants in this study, 80 native Spanish speakers and 195 L2 learners, were subjected to audio, visual-only, and audiovisual conditions to assess their segmentation accuracy. The results indicated that both groups could segment speech effectively, with audiovisual cues providing the most significant benefit. Native speakers performed more consistently, while proficiency influenced L2 learners’ accuracy. The results show that aural syllabic segmentation is acquired at early stages of proficiency, while visual syllabic segmentation is acquired at higher levels of proficiency.

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The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals

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Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

Within- and cross-modal translation priming: An event-related potential investigation with Chinese-English bilinguals

Segmenting Speech: The Role of Resyllabification in Spanish Phonology

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