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Fluency in L2: Read and Spontaneous Speech Pausing Patterns of Turkish, Swahili, Hausa and Arabic Speakers of English
Language learners’ actual speech performances constitute an essential aspect of studies on second language learning and teaching. Although there is...
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Audiovisual perception of interrupted speech by nonnative listeners
The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of visual cues in audiovisual perception of interrupted speech by nonnative English...
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One fish, uh, two fish: Effects of fluency and bilingualism on adults’ novel word learning
Listeners utilize speech disfluencies to anticipate novelty in spoken language, but little is known about how speech disfluencies impact novel word...
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Assessing Frontal Lobe Function on Verbal Fluency and Emotion Recall in Autism Spectrum Disorder by fNIRS
This study applied the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to investigate frontal activity in autism when performing verbal fluency test...
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Do Oral and Silent Word-Reading Fluency Rely on the Same Cognitive-Linguistic Skills? Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study in Greek
Researchers tend to use oral- and silent-reading fluency measures interchangeably and to generalize research findings across reading modes,...
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A Comparison of Repeated Reading and Listening While Reading to Increase Oral Reading Fluency in Children
Oral reading fluency is crucial to successful reading comprehension. Difficulties to effectively read aloud with fluency often pose challenges to...
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The Development of Accuracy and Fluency in Second Language (L2) Speaking Related to Self-Efficacy Through Online Scaffolding: A Latent Growth Curve Modeling Analysis
This longitudinal study made the first attempt to employ Latent Growth Curve Modeling to analyze the development of L2 speaking accuracy and fluency...
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The Role of Representational Gestures and Speech Synchronicity in Auditory Input by L2 and L1 Speakers
Speech and gesture are two integrated and temporally coordinated systems. Manual gestures can help second language (L2) speakers with vocabulary...
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Investigating the network structure of domain-specific knowledge using the semantic fluency task
Cognitive scientists have a long-standing interest in quantifying the structure of semantic memory. Here, we investigate whether a commonly used...
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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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Atypical Semantic Fluency and Recall in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders Associated with Autism Symptoms and Adaptive Functioning
It is unclear whether children with autism spectrum disorders have atypical semantic fluency and lower memory for the semantics of words. Therefore,...
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A one-man bilingual cocktail party: linguistic and non-linguistic effects on bilinguals’ speech recognition in Mandarin and English
Multilingual speakers can find speech recognition in everyday environments like restaurants and open-plan offices particularly challenging. In a...
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Evidence for conflict monitoring during speech recognition in noise
During difficult tasks, conflict can benefit performance on a subsequent trial. One theory for such performance adjustments is that people monitor...
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Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting: Develo** EFL Learners’ Reading Fluency Components
Develo** English reading fluency (ERF) is challenging due to cross-linguistic differences between L1 and L2. This study replicated, with...
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The Bouba–Kiki effect is predicted by sound properties but not speech properties
Humans robustly associate spiky shapes to words like “Kiki” and round shapes to words like “Bouba.” According to a popular explanation, this is...
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Attention modulates perceptual learning of non-native-accented speech
Listeners readily adapt to variation in non-native-accented speech, learning to disambiguate between talker-specific and accent-based variation. We...
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Individual differences in processing non-speech acoustic signals influence cue weighting strategies for L2 speech contrasts
How could individual differences in processing non-speech acoustic signals influence their cue weighting strategies for L2 speech contrasts? The...
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Music Rhythmic Cueing for the Production of Non-native Speech Rhythm: Evidence from Chinese Learners of French
The present study examined the cross-modal cueing effect of musical rhythmic beats on non-native speech rhythm production. Two groups of Chinese...
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Effect of Density of Tests Interposed in Equivalence-Based Instruction on Speech Accuracy in Picture Naming
Children who are deaf and hard of hearing and received cochlear implants when exposed to equivalence-based instruction (EBI) exhibit improvements in...
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