• A comparison of homonym meaning frequency estimates derived from movie and television subtitles, free association, and explicit ratings 

  Rice, Caitlin A.; Beekhuizen, Barend; Dubrovsky, Vladimir; Stevenson, Suzanne; Armstrong, Blair C. (Behavior Research Methods, 2019)

  Most words are ambiguous, with interpretation dependent on context. Advancing theories of ambiguity resolution is important for any general theory of language processing, and for resolving inconsistencies in observed ...
• I’m Doing Better on My Own: Social Inhibition in Vocabulary Learning in Adults 

  Martin, Clara D.; Underwood, Amy; Molinaro, Nicola (Frontiers in Psychology, 2019)

  Vocabulary learning is better achieved by children facing a teacher than when presented to the same teacher through video (so-called “video deficit” effect), which has significant implications for toddlers’ education. Since ...
• What absent switch costs and mixing costs during bilingual language comprehension can tell us about language control. 

  Declerck, Mathieu; Koch, Iring; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Grainger, Jonathan; Stephan, Denise N. (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2019)

  In the current study, we set out to investigate language control, which is the process that minimizes cross-language interference, during bilingual language comprehension. According to current theories of bilingual language ...
• Not all errors are the same: ERP sensitivity to error typicality in foreign accented speech perception 

  Caffarra, Sendy; Martin, Clara D. (Cortex, 2019)

  Intercultural communication has become more and more frequent in the recent globalized society.When native listeners try to understand non-native speakers, they have to deal with different types of grammatical errors, ...

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