Arabic speakers offer more utilitarian responses when thinking about the trolley dilemma in English

The Footbridge Dilemma Reflects More Utilitarian Thinking Than The Trolley Dilemma: Effect Of Number Of Victims In Moral Dilemmas

Previous studies on moral judgment have assumed that the trolley and footbridge dilemmas (Thomson, 1985) reflect utilitarian and deontologist thinking, respectively. However, on the basis of the “intervention myopia” hypothesis (Waldmann & Dieterich, 2007) and recent findings in analyses of moral dilemmas (Nakamura, 2011), the current study led a somewhat paradoxical prediction: An effect of th...

Recognizing Arabic speakers with English phones

We investigate the question of whether phone recognition models trained on large English databases can be used for speaker recognition in another language. Such a crosslanguage use of recognition models is an attractive option when a speaker recognition system is to be ported to a new language without the necessary data resources, while retaining some of the advantages of phone modeling and ASR...

English speakers attend more strongly than Spanish speakers to manner of motion when classifying novel objects and events.

Three experiments provide evidence that the conceptualization of moving objects and events is influenced by one's native language, consistent with linguistic relativity theory. Monolingual English speakers and bilingual Spanish/English speakers tested in an English-speaking context performed better than monolingual Spanish speakers and bilingual Spanish/English speakers tested in a Spanish-spea...

Speech-evoked brainstem responses in Arabic and Hebrew speakers.

Based on studies in English speakers, it has been proposed that speech-evoked brainstem responses (ABRs) may be used clinically to assess central auditory function. Whether the same procedure can be used across speakers of different languages remains unclear, because recent findings suggest that language experience affects even subcortical processing of speech. The goal of the present study was...

Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do