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Subjective age of acquisition norms for 1604 English words by Spanish L2 speakers of English and their relationship with lexico-semantic, affective, sociolinguistic and proficiency variables
Psycholinguistic studies have shown that there are many variables implicated in language comprehension and production. At the lexical level,...
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Working memory and L2 gender agreement processing in structural distance conditions
Previous studies examining the role of executive function in L2 processing show that working memory (WM) facilitates the processing of agreement in...
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Proficiency versus lexical processing efficiency as a measure of L2 lexical quality: Individual differences in word-frequency effects in L2 visual word recognition
This study investigated Korean-English second language (L2) speakers’ recognition of high- and low-frequency English words and compared two...
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Individual differences in word skip** during reading in English as L2
The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO; Siegelman et al., 2022) contains data from unbalanced bilinguals reading in their first language (L1) for...
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Effects of Native Translation Frequency and L2 Proficiency on L2 word Recognition: Evidence from Korean Speakers of English as a Foreign Language
The goal of this study was to examine how the lexical characteristics of L1 translated words affect L2 word recognition by Korean speakers of English...
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The development of abstract syntactic representations in beginning L2 learners of Dutch
The developmental account of second language (L2) syntactic acquisition in late learners (Hartsuiker & Bernolet, 2017) predicts that learners start...
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Profiling Adult L2 Readers in English Bridge Programs: A Not-So-Simple View of L1 Effect
This study aimed to validate the Simple View of Reading (SVR) in L2 English readers with alphabetic and morphosyllabic L1 writing system backgrounds....
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LextPT: A reliable and efficient vocabulary size test for L2 Portuguese proficiency
Vocabulary size has been repeatedly shown to be a good indicator of second language (L2) proficiency. Among the many existing vocabulary tests, the...
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The Impact of L2 English Learners' Belief about an Interlocutor's English Proficiency on L2 Phonetic Accommodation
The current study investigates the influence of L2 English learners’ belief about their interlocutor’s English proficiency on phonetic accommodation...
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Observations on the Progression of Gestures with L2 Proficiency: A Call for Further Research
Gestures in learners of second languages (L2) are still an understudied field. Most studies comparing the same individuals gesturing in their L2 and...
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The Influence of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Individual Differences on L2 Chinese Speech Performance: A Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes Approach
Informed by Segalowitz’s (Cognitive bases of second language fluency, Routledge, 2010) L2 speech production model and MacIntyre et al.’s (Mod Lang J...
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Word Knowledge Dimensions in L2 Lexical Inference: Testing Vocabulary Knowledge and Partial Word Knowledge
This study explored the role of word knowledge dimensions in second language (L2) word-meaning inference. College-level L2 learners ( N = 121)...
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The relationship between working memory capacity, bilingualism, and ambiguous relative clause attachment
Working memory (WM) capacity has been shown to influence how readers resolve syntactic ambiguities. Building on the work of Swets et al. (2007, Journal...
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English Grammar Skills in Dutch Grade 4 Children: Examining the Relation Between L1 and L2 Language Skills
Second language proficiency may be related to first language acquisition (Ganschow & Sparks,
1991 ), but relatively little is known about the relation... -
Is letter position coding when reading in L2 affected by the nature of position coding used when bilinguals read in their L1?
Using four-character Chinese word targets, Yang, Chen, Spinelli, and Lupker ( Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 45 (8...
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Will Emotional Effects Modulate L2 Lexical Attrition as they Do in L2 Acquisition?
This study attempted to examine the modulation of emotional effects on L2 lexical attrition. For this purpose, a cross-sectional approach was adopted...
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LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese
A prominent methodological issue in cognitive research on bilingualism is the lack of consistency in measuring second language (L2) proficiency. To...
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Biliteracy and acquisition of novel written words: the impact of phonological conflict between L1 and L2 scripts
The acquisition of new orthographic representations is a rapid and accurate process in proficient monolingual readers. The present study used...
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Cross-language contributions of rapid automatized naming to reading accuracy and fluency in young adults: evidence from eight languages representing different writing systems
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a strong predictor of reading across languages. However, it remains unclear if the effects of RAN in first language...
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Discrimination of Second Language Vowel Contrasts and the Role of Phonological Short-Term Memory and Nonverbal Intelligence
Although extensive research has focused on the perceptual abilities of second language (L2) learners, a significant gap persists in understanding how...
