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The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements (2023)
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Studies using a relatedness judgement task have found differences between prime-target word pairs that vary in the degree of semantic relatedness. However, the influence of working memory load on semantic processing in this task and the role of the t... Read More about The impact of spatial and verbal working memory load on semantic relatedness judgements.

LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers (2023)
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Objective language proficiency measures have been found to provide better and more consistent estimates of bilinguals’ language processing than self-rated proficiency (e.g., Tomoschuk et al., 2019; Wen & van Heuven, 2017a). However, objectively measu... Read More about LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers.

SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh (2023)
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We present SUBTLEX-CY, a new word frequency database created from a 32-million-word corpus of Welsh television subtitles. An experiment comprising a lexical decision task examined SUBTLEX-CY frequency estimates against words with inconsistent frequen... Read More about SUBTLEX-CY: A new word frequency database for Welsh.

LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese (2023)
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A prominent methodological issue in cognitive research on bilingualism is the lack of consistency in measuring second language (L2) proficiency. To reduce the inconsistency in L2 proficiency measurements, brief and valid vocabulary tests have been de... Read More about LexCHI: A quick lexical test for estimating language proficiency in Chinese.

Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish (2023)
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This study presents a Polish semantic priming dataset and semantic similarity ratings for word pairs obtained with native Polish speakers, as well as a range of semantic spaces. The word pairs include strongly related, weakly related, and semanticall... Read More about Establishing semantic relatedness through ratings, reaction times, and semantic vectors: A database in Polish.

Inventing and Reinventing the Cog: A Commentary on “Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions” (2022)
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Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation (2022)
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Translation equivalents are widely used in bilingual research concerning word processing (e.g., Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013; Jouravlev & Jared, 2020) and second-language vocabulary learning (e.g., Bracken et al., 2017; Degani et al., 2014). Although t... Read More about Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation.

Revisiting the neighborhood: how L2 proficiency and neighborhood manipulation affect biliingual processing (2018)
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We conducted three neighborhood experiments with Dutch–English bilinguals to test effects of L2 proficiency and neighborhood characteristics within and between languages. In the past 20 years, the English (L2) proficiency of this population has consi... Read More about Revisiting the neighborhood: how L2 proficiency and neighborhood manipulation affect biliingual processing.

The need for a universal computational model of bilingual word recognition and word translation (2018)
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Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals (2018)
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Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), meaning, as well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can also be activated automatically when they read words in their second languag... Read More about Electrophysiological dynamics of Chinese phonology during visual word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals.

Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling (2018)
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Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests that Chinese translations of English words are automatically activated when Chinese-English bilinguals read English words (e.g., Thierry & Wu, 2007; Wu & Thierry, 2010; Zhang, van Heuven, & Conkl... Read More about Limitations of translation activation in masked priming: Behavioural evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals and computational modelling.

Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain (2017)
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Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated in detail, more specific phr... Read More about Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain.

GreekLex 2: a comprehensive lexical database with part-of-speech, syllabic, phonological, and stress information (2017)
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Databases containing lexical properties on any given orthography are crucial for psycholinguistic research. In the last ten years, a number of lexical databases have been developed for Greek. However, these lack important part-of-speech information.... Read More about GreekLex 2: a comprehensive lexical database with part-of-speech, syllabic, phonological, and stress information.

Non-cognate translation priming in masked priming lexical decision experiments: a meta-analysis (2016)
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The masked translation priming paradigm has been widely used in the last 25 years to investigate word processing in bilinguals. Motivated by studies reporting mixed findings, in particular for second language (L2) to first language (L1) translation p... Read More about Non-cognate translation priming in masked priming lexical decision experiments: a meta-analysis.

Chinese translation norms for 1429 English words (2016)
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We present Chinese translation norms for 1429 English words. Chinese-English bilinguals (N=28) were asked to provide the first Chinese translation that came to mind for 1429 English words. The results revealed that 71% of the English words received m... Read More about Chinese translation norms for 1429 English words.

The effect of script similarity on executive control in bilinguals (2014)
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Electrophysiological explorations of the bilingual advantage: evidence from a stroop task (2014)
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SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English (2014)
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We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based... Read More about SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English.

Is the masked priming same-different task a pure measure of prelexical processing? (2013)
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To study prelexical processes involved in visual word recognition a task is needed that only operates at the level of abstract letter identities. The masked priming same-different task has been purported to do this, as the same pattern of priming is... Read More about Is the masked priming same-different task a pure measure of prelexical processing?.

Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure (2013)
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First language acquisition requires relatively little effort compared to foreign language acquisition and happens more naturally through informal learning. Informal exposure can also benefit foreign language learning, although evidence for this has b... Read More about Incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary through brief multi-modal exposure.