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The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (2014)
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© 2014 The Author. Published by Taylor & Francis. This study used eye tracking to investigate the allocation of attention to multimodal stimuli during an incidental learning situation, as well as its impact on subsequent explicit learning. Particip... Read More about The role of verbal and pictorial information in multimodal incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary.

The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (2014)
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Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions... Read More about The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary.

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.

The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals (2013)
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Executive control abilities and lexical access speed in Stroop performance were investigated in English monolinguals and two groups of bilinguals (English–Chinese and Chinese–English) in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Predictions were ba... Read More about The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals.

Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: an eye tracking study (2012)
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Foreign language (FL) films with subtitles are becoming increasingly popular, and many European countries use subtitling as a cheaper alternative to dubbing. However, the extent to which people process subtitles under different subtitling conditions... Read More about Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: an eye tracking study.

The influence of cross-language similarity on within- and between-language Stroop effects in trilinguals (2011)
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This study investigated effects of cross-language similarity on within- and between-language Stroop interference and facilitation in three groups of trilinguals. Trilinguals were either proficient in three languages that use the same-script (alphabet... Read More about The influence of cross-language similarity on within- and between-language Stroop effects in trilinguals.

Electrophysiological measures of conflict detection and resolution in the Stroop task (2011)
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Conflict detection and resolution is crucial in a cognitive task like the Stroop task. Previous studies have identified an early negativity component (Ninc) as a prominent marker of Stroop conflict in event-related potentials (ERPs). However, to what... Read More about Electrophysiological measures of conflict detection and resolution in the Stroop task.

Seeing a phrase “time and again” matters: the role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multiword sequences (2011)
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Are speakers sensitive to the frequency with which phrases occur in language. The authors report an eye-tracking study that investigates this by examining the processing of multiword sequences that differ in phrasal frequency by native and proficient... Read More about Seeing a phrase “time and again” matters: the role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multiword sequences.

Fast automatic translation and morphological decomposition in Chinese- English bilinguals (2011)
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In this study, we investigated automatic translation from English to Chinese and subsequent morphological decomposition of translated Chinese compounds. In two lexical decision tasks, Chinese-English bilinguals responded to English target words that... Read More about Fast automatic translation and morphological decomposition in Chinese- English bilinguals.