Your Language History Shapes What You Expect Sentences to Say Next
A large cross-linguistic cloze study shows that sentence constraint norms depend on both the language tested and speakers' language dominance, ...
Tag: psycholinguistics
Bilingual Brains Read Language Labels One Word at a Time, Study Suggests
A new flanker study of Dutch–English bilinguals shows that language membership information is extracted across multiple words only in a ...
Training the Brain to Listen: Working Memory and Metacognition Join Forces in Language Learning
A randomized experiment with Iranian teenage English learners found that metacognitive intervention and working memory training both improve listening comprehension, ...
Toddlers Quietly Learn Words From Adult Conversations They Were Never Meant to Hear
A new Child Development study finds that toddlers begin recognizing words overheard from adult conversations around age two, revealing a ...
Fake Words With Real Feelings: Giant Study Shows Emotion Sneaks Into the Brain’s Word Detector
A megastudy of over 1,000 Spanish speakers shows that emotionally charged pseudowords are harder to reject than neutral ones, revealing ...
Greek Children’s Textbooks Power a New Linguistically Annotated Lexical Database
Researchers have expanded the HelexKids database into a richly annotated resource covering 67,802 Greek word types from elementary textbooks, adding ...
Personality traits fail to explain why listeners hear speech differently
A large replication study finds that personality questionnaires, including the Autism Spectrum Quotient and the Big Five, do not reliably ...
Thinking in a Second Language Changes Moral Choices, but Only When the Mind Has Room to Deliberate
A new CNI model study shows that the foreign language effect in moral judgment combines enhanced outcome sensitivity and reduced ...
Anxious Words: How Learners’ Speech Reveals Fear in Online and In-Person English Classes
A new study of 80 Turkish learners of English finds that speaking anxiety levels are similar online and face-to-face, but ...
Massive New Database Reveals When We Learn Every Word of Russian
Researchers have collected and validated age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,849 Russian words from over 2,200 adults, creating the largest such database ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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