Essays about: "pseudowords"
Found 4 essays containing the word pseudowords.
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1. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighetAbstract : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. READ MORE
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2. Effects of Foreign Language Training on Word Perception
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : This paper reports the results of a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study that tested predictions on changes in visual word perception. The neural correlates of visual word perception were examined twice over the course of three months. READ MORE
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3. Effects of Suprasegmental Features on the Processing of Spoken Words in the Human Brain: Evidence from Mismatch Negativity (MMN)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : The study reported in the present paper aimed to determine the effect of prosodic cues on automatic word processing in the brain by comparing the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERP) elicited by isolated words and pseudowords. More specifically, it attempted to explore the influence of changes in certain suprasegmental cues such as fundamental frequency and intensity on the perception of linguistic stress patterns by native speakers of American English. READ MORE
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4. Examining the link between productive vocabulary and the shape bias: An ERP study
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : It is during a child’s second year that the rate of word learning increases drastically and they start to pay more attention to the property of shape when categorizing new objects. The present study set out to investigate the relationship between productive vocabulary size and the shape bias when children learn novel words. READ MORE