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Journal of Memory and Language 97 (2017) 103–120 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Memory and Language journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jml The first- and second-language age of acquisition effect in first- and second-language book reading ⇑ Nicolas Dirix , Wouter Duyck Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium article info abstract Article history: The age of acquisition (AoA) effect in first/monolingual language processing has received much attention Received 3 August 2016 in psycholinguistic research. However, AoA effects in second language processing were only investigated Revision received 14 July 2017 rarely. In the current study, we investigated first (L1) and second language (L2) AoA effects in a combined eye tracking and mega study approach. We analyzed data of a corpus of eye movements to assess the time course of AoA effects on bilingual reading. We found an effect of L2 AoA in both early and late mea- Keywords: sures of L2 reading: fixation times were faster for words that were learned earlier in L2. This suggests that Age of acquisition the L2 AoA effect has an influence throughout the entire L2 reading process, analogous to the L1 AoA Bilingualism effect. However, we are also the first to find an early effect of L1 AoA on L2 processing: if the L1 transla- Eye tracking Visual word recognition tion of the L2 word was learned earlier, the L2 word was also read faster. We discuss the implications of Corpus study these findings for two important hypotheses that offer an explanation for the AoA effect: the mapping and semantic hypothesis. -
The Influence of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access
Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations Arts & Sciences Summer 8-15-2015 The nflueI nce of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access Emily Rebecca Cohen-Shikora Washington University in St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds Part of the Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Cohen-Shikora, Emily Rebecca, "The nflueI nce of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access" (2015). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 577. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/577 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts & Sciences at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Department of Psychology Dissertation Examination Committee: David A. Balota, Chair Janet Duchek Denise Head Brett Hyde Rebecca Treiman The Influence of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access by Emily Cohen-Shikora A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2015 St. Louis, Missouri © 2015, Emily Cohen-Shikora Table of Contents List of Figures ............................................................................................................................... -
The Word Frequency Effect: Relationship of Lexical Entries Between the Primary and Secondary Language
University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Electronic Theses and Dissertations Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers 9-21-2018 The Word Frequency Effect: Relationship of Lexical Entries Between the Primary and Secondary Language Nawal Mustafa University of Windsor Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd Recommended Citation Mustafa, Nawal, "The Word Frequency Effect: Relationship of Lexical Entries Between the Primary and Secondary Language" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 7548. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7548 This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of University of Windsor students from 1954 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students may inquire about withdrawing their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via email ([email protected]) or by telephone at 519-253-3000ext. 3208. The Word Frequency Effect: Relationship of Lexical Entries Between the Primary and Secondary Language by Nawal Mustafa A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies through the Department of Psychology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts at the University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada 2018 © 2018 Nawal Mustafa The Word Frequency Effect: Relationship of Lexical Entries Between the Primary and Secondary Language by Nawal Mustafa APPROVED BY: ______________________________________________ C. -
Discovering the Brain Stages of Lexical Decision: Behavioral Effects Originate from a Single Neural Decision
Discovering the Brain Stages of Lexical Decision: Behavioral Effects Originate from a Single Neural Decision Process Hermine S. Berberyan1*, Hedderik van Rijn2, & Jelmer P. Borst1 1 Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands 2 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands * Corresponding author: Hermine S. Berberyan, [email protected] ORCID: Hermine S. Berberyan 0000-0002-3889-5933 Hedderik van Rijn 0000-0002-0461-9850 Jelmer P. Borst 0000-0002-4493-8223 This is a preprint. A peer reviewed publication is Berberyan, H., van Rijn, H., & Borst, J. P. (2021). Discovering the brain stages of lexical decision: Behavioral effects originate from a single neural decision process. Brain and Cognition, 153, 105786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105786 Abstract Lexical decision (LD) – judging whether a sequence of letters constitutes a word – has been widely investigated. In a typical lexical decision task (LDT), participants are asked to respond whether a sequence of letters is an actual word or a nonword. Although behavioral differences between types of words/nonwords have been robustly detected in LDT, there is an ongoing discussion about the exact cognitive processes that underlie the word identification process in this task. To obtain data-driven evidence on the underlying processes, we recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) data and applied a novel machine-learning method, hidden semi-Markov model multivariate pattern analysis (HsMM- MVPA). In the current study, participants performed an LDT in which we varied the frequency of words (high, low frequency) and “wordlikeness” of non-words (pseudowords, random non-words). The results revealed that models with six processing stages accounted best for the data in all conditions.