Browsing by Author "Ordin, Mikhail"
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An evolutionary account of intermodality differences in statistical learning
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Samuel, Arthur G. (Wiley, 2021)The cognitive mechanisms underlying statistical learning are engaged for the purposes of speech processing and language acquisition. However, these mechanisms are shared by a wide variety of species that do not possess ... -
Capturing Cross-linguistic Differences in Macro-rhythm: The Case of Italian and English
Polyanskaya, Leona; Busà, Maria Grazia; Ordin, Mikhail (Language and Speech, 2020)We tested the hypothesis that languages can be classified by their degree of tonal rhythm (Jun, 2014). The tonal rhythms of English and Italian were quantified using the following parameters: (a) regularity of tonal ... -
Cross-Linguistic Differences in Bilinguals’ Fundamental Frequency Ranges
Ordin, Mikhail; Mennen, Ineke (Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 2017)Purpose We investigated cross-linguistic differences in fundamental frequency range (FFR) in Welsh-English bilingual speech. This is the first study that reports gender-specific behavior in switching FFRs across languages ... -
Cross-linguistic differences in the use of durational cues for the segmentation of a novel language
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Laka Mugarza, Itziar ; Nespor, Marina (Memory & Cognition, 2017)It is widely accepted that duration can be exploited as phonological phrase final lengthening in the segmentation of a novel language, i.e., in extracting discrete constituents from continuous speech. The use of final ... -
Electrophysiology of statistical learning: Exploring the online learning process and offline learning product
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Soto, David ; Molinaro, Nicola (European Journal of Neuroscience, 2020)A continuous stream of syllables is segmented into discrete constituents based on the transitional probabilities (TPs) between adjacent syllables by means of statistical learning. However, we still do not know whether ... -
Intermodality differences in statistical learning: phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences
Polyanskaya, Leona; Manrique, Héctor M.; Samuel, Arthur G.; Marín, Antonio; García-Palacios, Azucena; Ordin, Mikhail (WILEY, 2022)In Basque–Spanish bilinguals, statistical learning (SL) in the visual modality was more efficient on nonlinguistic than linguistic input; in the auditory modality, we found the reverse pattern of results.We hypothesize ... -
Metacognitive Processing in Language Learning Tasks Is Affected by Bilingualism
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Soto, David (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020)We assessed the effect of bilingualism on metacognitive processing in the artificial language learning task, in 2 experiments varying in the difficulty to segment the language. Following a study phase in which participants ... -
Native Language Influence in the Segmentation of a Novel Language
Ordin, Mikhail; Nespor, Marina (Language Learning and Development, 2016)A major problem in second language acquisition (SLA) is the segmentation of fluent speech in the target language, i.e., detecting the boundaries of phonological constituents like words and phrases in the speech stream. ... -
Neural bases of learning and recognition of statistical regularities
Statistical learning is a set of cognitive mechanisms allowing for extracting regularities from the environment and segmenting continuous sensory input into discrete units. The current study used functional magnetic ... -
Regularity in speech rhythm as a social coalition signal
Polyanskaya, Leona; Samuel, Arthur G.; Ordin, Mikhail (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019)Regular rhythm facilitates audiomotor entrainment and synchronization in motor behavior and vocalizations between individuals. As rhythm entrainment between interacting agents is correlated with higher levels of ... -
Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language
Polyanskaya, Leona; Ordin, Mikhail; Busa, Maria Grazia (Language and Speech, 2017)We investigated the independent contribution of speech rate and speech rhythm to perceived foreign accent. To address this issue we used a resynthesis technique that allows neutralizing segmental and tonal idiosyncrasies ... -
Speech rhythm as naturally occurring and culturally transmitted behavioral patterns
Ordin, Mikhail (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2019)Rhythm is fundamental to every motor activity. Neural and physiological mechanisms that underlie rhythmic cognition, in general, and rhythmic pattern generation, in particular, are evolutionarily ancient. As speech production ... -
Speech Rhythm Convergence as a Social Coalition Signal
Polyanskaya, Leona; Samuel, Arthur G.; Ordin, Mikhail (Evolutionary Psychology, 2019)Patterns of nonverbal and verbal behavior of interlocutors become more similar as communication progresses. Rhythm entrainment promotes prosocial behavior and signals social bonding and cooperation. Yet, it is unknown if ... -
Speech rhythm convergence in a dyadic reading task
Cerda-Oñate, Karina; Toledo Vega, Gloria; Ordin, Mikhail (Speech Communication, 2021)We tested the effect of co-presence on entrainment to speech rhythm, examining differences in speech rhythm convergence during a reading task, in conditions where the reading partner was present or absent. Speech rhythm ... -
Statistical Speech Segmentation in Tone Languages: The Role of Lexical Tones
Gómez, David M.; Mok, Peggy; Ordin, Mikhail; Mehler, Jacques; Nespor, Marina (Language and Speech, 2018)Research has demonstrated distinct roles for consonants and vowels in speech processing. For example, consonants have been shown to support lexical processes, such as the segmentation of speech based on transitional ... -
The effect of regular rhythm on the perception of linguistic and non-linguistic auditory input
Rassili, Outhmane; Ordin, Mikhail (WILEY, 2022)Regular distribution of auditory stimuli over time can facilitate perception and attention. However, such effects have to date only been observed in separate studies using either linguistic or non-linguistic materials. ... -
The effect of speech rhythm and speaking rate on assessment of pronunciation in a second language
Polyanskaya, Leona; Ordin, Mikhail (Applied Psycholinguistics, 2019)The study explores the effect of deviations from native speech rhythm and rate norms on the assessement of pronunciation mastery of a second language (L2) when the native language of the learner is either rhythmically ... -
The role of metacognition in recognition of the content of statistical learning
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021)Despite theoretical debate on the extent to which statistical learning is incidental or modulated by explicit instructions and conscious awareness of the content of statistical learning, no study has ever investigated the ... -
The Role of Native Language and the Fundamental Design of the Auditory System in Detecting Rhythm Changes
Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Gómez, David Maximiliano; Samuel, Arthur G. (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 2019)Purpose: We investigated whether rhythm discrimination is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or by the fundamental design of the human auditory system and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all ... -
Typological Differences Influence the Bilingual Advantage in Metacognitive Processing
Polyanskaya, Leona; Manrique, Héctor M.; Marín, Antonio; García-Palacios, Azucena; Ordin, Mikhail (APA American Psychological Association, 2022)Previous studies showed a bilingual advantage in metacognitive processing (tracking one’s own cognitive performance) in linguistic tasks. However, bilinguals do not constitute a homogeneous population, and it was unclear ...