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Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language
switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely
on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of ...
The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning
(PLOS ONE, 2020)
Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet,
there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not
native speakers of. For this reason, ...
The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language
(Scientific Reports, 2020)
Vocabulary learning occurs throughout the lifespan, often implicitly. For foreign language learners, this is particularly challenging as they must acquire a large number of new words with little exposure. In the present ...
Examining Bilingual Language Switching Across the Lifespan in Cued and Voluntary Switching Contexts
(Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2020)
How bilinguals control their languages and switch between them may change across the life span.
Furthermore, bilingual language control may depend on the demands imposed by the context. Across 2
experiments, we examined ...
Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness
(Psicológica, 2020)
The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces ...
The Influence of Emotional and Foreign Language Context in Content Learning
(Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020)
Prior research has found reduced emotionality with foreign language use, especially with single
words, but what happens if emotionality is conveyed throughout a longer text? Does emotionality
affect how well we remember ...
How do bilinguals switch between languages in different interactional contexts? A comparison between voluntary and mandatory language switching
(Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2020)
How bilinguals switch between languages depends on the context. In a voluntary context,
bilinguals are free to decide when to switch, whereas in a cued context they are instructed
when to switch. While using two languages ...
How do Spanish speakers read words? Insights from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy
(Behavior Research Methods, 2020)
Vocabulary size seems to be affected by multiple factors, including those that belong to the properties of the words themselves
and those that relate to the characteristics of the individuals assessing the words. In this ...